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Jackie Jensen "Golden Boy"
- Selected as a consensus All-American in college football before pursuing a professional baseball career.
- Won a league Most Valuable Player award while playing for a franchise that once traded the player away.
- Suffered from a severe, career-impacting phobia of air travel that necessitated alternative transportation to games.
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Career Totals
| WAR | AB | H | HR | BA | R | RBI | SB | OBP | SLG | OPS | OPS+ |
|---|
| 27.8 | 5236 | 1463 | 199 | .279 | 810 | 929 | 143 | .369 | .460 | .829 | 120 |
Statistics via Baseball-Reference.com
The Original Clue
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