finalyear bats birth_place debutyear finaldate statvalue position finalteam statlabel debutdate birth_date article_title debutteam name throws
1968 left americus , georgia 1968 september 13 .364 1 1 outfielder washington senators batting average home runs runs batted in july 28 12 january 1947 gene martin
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gene martin

thomas eugene martin -lrb- born january 12 , 1947 in americus , georgia -rrb- is a former major league baseball left fielder .
he was drafted by the washington senators in the 3rd round of the 1965 major league baseball draft , and he played in nine games for them in .
martin , 21 years old , made the most of a very brief major league career .
he appeared in just nine games , most as a pinch hitter , and hit .364 with two singles , a double , and a home run in just 11 at bats .
his home run was hit against 1968 american league rookie of the year stan bahnsen .
it happened on september 8 , 1968 , at yankee stadium .
martin had much greater success in japan , where he played for six seasons from until .
he played five seasons for the chunichi dragons , then one season for the yokohama taiyo whales .
over the course of his japanese career , he hit 189 home runs -lrb- averaging over 30 per season -rrb- while batting .272 .
