finalyear bats birth_place debutyear finaldate statvalue article_title position finalteam statlabel debutdate birth_date |image debutteam name throws
2003 right newberry , south carolina 1999 july 23 .163 16 8 travis dawkins
 shortstop kansas city royals batting average hits runs scored september 3 12 may 1979 gookie.jpg cincinnati reds travis dawkins right
travis dawkins

travis sentell `` gookie '' dawkins -lrb- born may 12 , 1979 in newberry , south carolina -rrb- is a retired major league baseball shortstop .
drafted by the cincinnati reds in the 2nd round of the 1997 major league baseball draft , dawkins would make his major league baseball debut with the reds on september 3 , .
his first major league at-bat was on september 4 , 1999 , at philadelphia -lrb- a game in which the reds hit nine home runs -rrb- .
dawkins singled and reached third base on a throwing error .
a young philadelphia phillies fan seated down the first base line reached over the fence and grabbed the rolling the ball during play .
the reds staff later obtained the first major league hit ball for dawkins by trading with the fan .
dawkins won an olympic gold medal in 2000 while playing for the united states baseball team .
dawkins spent the season , playing for the tacoma rainiers , the triple-a affiliate of the seattle mariners and the ottawa lynx , the triple-a affiliate of the philadelphia phillies .
dawkins was re-signed by the phillies on december 7 , 2007 , to a minor league contract .
dawkins signed with the chicago white sox for the season , and was assigned to their triple-a team , the charlotte knights .
dawkins was traded to the kansas city royals on june 11 , 2008 .
he re-signed with the white sox after the season .
then he signed the reds in the summer of 2010 .
in the 2010 offseason , dawkins signed a minor league contract with the charlotte knights
