finalyear bats birth_place debutyear finaldate statvalue position finalteam statlabel debutdate birth_date article_title debutteam name throws
2003 right sacramento , california 1989 july 10 .242 355 1,072 left fielder / designated hitter colorado rockies batting average home runs runs batted in august 10 3 july 1965 greg vaughn
 milwaukee brewers greg vaughn right
greg vaughn

gregory lamont vaughn -lrb- born july 3 , 1965 -rrb- is a former major league baseball left fielder who played for the milwaukee brewers -lrb- 1989 -- 96 -rrb- , san diego padres -lrb- 1996 -- 98 -rrb- , cincinnati reds -lrb- 1999 -rrb- , tampa bay devil rays -lrb- 2000 -- 02 -rrb- and colorado rockies -lrb- 2003 -rrb- .
he was born in sacramento , california , where he attended kennedy high school .
he then played baseball at the university of miami .
he is the cousin of fellow former major leaguer mo vaughn .
vaughn was selected by the brewers in the first round -lrb- 4th pick -rrb- of the 1986 amateur draft .
a slugger whose batting average dropped below .250 as often as rising above it , he compensated with excellent power .
he had three seasons with at least 100 runs batted in , and four with 30 or more home runs - including the legendary season , when he hit 50 to finish 4th in the major leagues behind ken griffey , jr. , sammy sosa , and mark mcgwire , who set the home run record that season .
in 1999 , he became the only player in major league history to be traded after a 50-homer season when the padres traded him to the cincinnati reds .
vaughn 's arrival in cincinnati caused a bit of a controversy with club ownership and their no facial hair policy .
vaughn styled a goatee that he really did n't want to remove .
fans urged owner marge schott to lift the long-standing policy that had been in place since 1967 which she eventually did .
on the field , he hit 45 homers and became the second player in major league history to hit 40 or more homers in consecutive seasons with two different teams -lrb- one year after andrés galarraga became the first -rrb- .
throughout his career , vaughn batted .242 with 355 home runs , 1072 rbi , 1017 runs , 1475 hits , 284 doubles , 23 triples and 121 stolen bases in 1731 games .
vaughn became eligible for the national baseball hall of fame in 2009 .
75 % of the vote was necessary for induction , and 5 % was necessary to stay on the ballot .
he received zero votes and dropped off the ballot .
vaughn 's son , cory vaughn , attended and played baseball at san diego state university under hall of famer tony gwynn between 2008 and 2010 .
following his junior season in which he batted .378 with 9 home runs and 55 rbi in 47 games , vaughn was drafted in the 4th round -lrb- 122nd overall -rrb- of the 2010 major league baseball draft by the new york mets .
after signing with the mets he was assigned to the short-season brooklyn cyclones where he finished the season ranked 1st in slugging percentage , 1st in ops -lrb- on-base + slugging -rrb- , 2nd in home runs , and 2nd in rbi .
