finalyear bats birth_place debutyear finaldate statvalue position finalteam statlabel debutdate birth_date article_title debutteam name throws
1981 left ray , arizona 1979 october 3 .240 17 65 catcher baltimore orioles batting average home runs runs batted in june 18 19 july 1954 dan graham -lrb- baseball -rrb-
 minnesota twins dan graham right
dan graham -lrb- baseball -rrb-

daniel jay graham -lrb- born july 19 , 1954 in ray , arizona -rrb- is an american former professional baseball player who appeared in 143 games in the major leagues -- largely as a catcher -- for the minnesota twins -lrb- -rrb- and baltimore orioles -lrb- -- -rrb- .
he threw right-handed , batted left-handed , stood tall and weighed .
graham broke into professional baseball as a third baseman .
he was selected by the twins in the fifth round of the 1975 major league baseball draft and three times exceeded 20 home runs during his minor league career .
after debuting in mlb by going hitless in two june games for the 1979 twins , he was acquired by baltimore that off-season and optioned to the triple-a rochester red wings to begin the campaign .
in 16 games , he batted .346 with four home runs , earning a call-up to the orioles in may .
in his second game , may 10 against the milwaukee brewers at county stadium , he started at catcher and collected his first mlb hit , and homer , off lary sorensen .
in his next two starts , may 13 -- 14 against the texas rangers at memorial stadium , graham had seven hits in nine at bats , including his second big-league home run .
his success at the plate led manager earl weaver to use him on a semi-regular basis , along with right-handed-hitting rick dempsey .
graham started 65 games at catcher , with dempsey starting 95 .
for the season , graham hit 15 home runs and drove home 54 runs batted in in 286 plate appearances , batting .278 .
in 1981 , graham spent his only full season in the majors , but his production plummeted to only 25 hits in 156 at bats -lrb- .176 -rrb- with two home runs .
he finished his pro career with rochester in 1982 .
