finalyear bats birth_place debutyear finaldate statvalue position finalteam statlabel debutdate birth_date article_title debutteam name throws
1995 left castro valley , california 1990 june 20 .230 65 169 designated hitter / first baseman minnesota twins batting average home runs runs batted in june 29 20 january 1965 kevin maas
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kevin maas

kevin christian maas -lrb- born january 20 , 1965 -rrb- is a former major league baseball player .
he was drafted by the new york yankees in the 22nd round of the 1986 draft after attending the university of california .
he made his major league debut for yankees on june 29 , 1990 when they called him up from the columbus clippers .
it was hoped that he would be the heir apparent to don mattingly .
he started his big league career on a tear , setting a record for the fewest at bats -lrb- 72 -rrb- to hit 10 home runs .
he also set a record for fastest rookie to 13 and 15 with 110 and 133 at-bats , thirteen fewer than sam horn took to reach 13 and two fewer than wally berger took to reach 15 .
he was helped by a three game series at texas when he homered in each game of the series .
at the end of the 1990 season , maas had hit 21 home runs in 79 games and he finished second in the sporting news rookie of the year award voting to sandy alomar , jr. of the cleveland indians .
like mattingly , maas was a left-handed batter .
as a result many of his home runs went into the right field stands .
about halfway through the season a group of a dozen or so young ladies began wearing `` maas-tops '' to yankees home games and sitting in the right field stands .
whenever maas hit a home run to right , the girls would get up , remove their tops and jump up and down until maas finished circling the bases .
however after a few home runs the women were banned from entering yankee stadium .
the following season he served as the yankees designated hitter and occasional fill in for mattingly at first base .
even though he played in 148 games , his sophomore season was not as successful as his first .
he did hit 23 home runs -lrb- in 500 at bats -rrb- , but hit just .220 with 128 strikeouts .
by 1992 , maas was shuffling back and forth between the major and minor leagues .
he was released by the yankees in 1994 .
he bounced around between san diego , cincinnati , and minnesota .
he briefly returned to the majors in 1995 with minnesota but it was clear he was a `` one hit wonder . ''
maas then signed with the hanshin tigers of japan 's central league in 1996 to replace glenn davis .
