|finalyear bats birth_place debutyear |finalteam |finaldate statvalue position statlabel debutdate birth_date article_title debutteam name throws
1989 switch birmingham , alabama 1981 pittsburgh pirates october 1 .251 5 53 202 outfielder batting average home runs runs batted in hits september 12 7 march 1958 albert hall -lrb- baseball -rrb-
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albert hall -lrb- baseball -rrb-

albert hall -lrb- born march 7 , 1958 , in birmingham , alabama -rrb- is an american former professional baseball player who played the majority of his major league career for the atlanta braves .
hall appeared in a total of 375 games played in the national league between 1981 -- 1989 , and 355 of those were as a member of the braves .
he added twenty games to his mlb résumé at the end of his career with the pittsburgh pirates .
hall was a switch hitter who threw right-handed ; he stood tall and weighed .
he was selected by the braves in the sixth round of the 1977 major league baseball draft out of birmingham 's jones valley high school .
after spending his first two professional seasons in rookie ball , hall quickly developed a reputation as a prolific base stealer in minor league baseball .
in successive seasons , he stole 66 -lrb- 1979 -rrb- , 100 -lrb- 1980 -rrb- , 60 -lrb- 1981 -rrb- and 62 -lrb- 1982 -rrb- bases at progressively higher levels of the braves ' farm system .
then , in 1986 , he stole 72 bases for the triple-a richmond braves .
hall spent only two full seasons , and , in major league baseball .
his finest big league season was 1987 , when he set mlb-career highs in games played -lrb- 92 -rrb- , runs scored -lrb- 54 -rrb- , hits -lrb- 83 -rrb- , doubles -lrb- 20 -rrb- , triples -lrb- 4 -rrb- , home runs -lrb- three -rrb- , runs batted in -lrb- 24 -rrb- , stolen bases -lrb- 33 -rrb- , and batting average .284 .
on september 23 , he became the first atlanta brave to hit for the cycle .
during his mlb career , hall stole 67 bases and was caught stealing 29 times -lrb- .698 -rrb- .
in the minors , he had 455 thefts in 566 attempts -lrb- .803 -rrb- .
