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Jacoby McCabe Ellsbury ( ; born September 11, 1983) is an American professional baseball center fielder for the New York Yankees of Major League Baseball (MLB). He played in MLB for the Boston Red Sox from 2007 through 2013, and joined the Yankees before the 2014 season. Ellsbury was first drafted by the Tampa Bay Devil Rays in the 23rd round of the 2002 MLB Draft, but did not sign. He was drafted next as 23rd overall by the Red Sox in the 2005, after playing college baseball for three years at Oregon State University. Ellsbury is the only Red Sox player in history to be a member of the 30–30 club. In 2011, Ellsbury also won the Gold Glove Award, the Silver Slugger Award, and was the American League MVP runner-up to Justin Verlander. Ellsbury is an enrolled member of the Colorado River Indian Tribes; Ellsbury's mother, Margie, is full-blooded Navajo〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=JockBio: Jacoby Ellsbury Biography )〕 and his father is of English and German descent. Ellsbury is the first Native American of Navajo descent to reach the major leagues. As of 2008, he was one of three active non-Hispanic Native American players in Major League Baseball, along with Kyle Lohse and Joba Chamberlain. ==Early life== Ellsbury was born on September 11, 1983, to Jim and Margie Ellsbury, and is the oldest of four children. His mother is a Navajo Native American, a descendant from 19th-century tribal leader Ganado Mucho. Her father Franklin McCabe was a silversmith and her mother a traditional rug weaver.〔 The Ellsburys lived on a reservation until they moved to Madras, Oregon, when the boy was in kindergarten. He was raised in the Mormon religion.〔 In Little League, Ellsbury often played with teammates up to three years older than he. At Madras High School, he lettered in five sports. In his senior year in baseball, he hit .537 with 65 stolen bases. In basketball, he averaged 23.6 points and 4.4 blocks per game. He finished his football career with nine interceptions and six kickoff returns for touchdowns. He went to Oregon State University where he was a Baseball America first-team All-American and Pac-10 Conference Co-Player of the year, with Trevor Crowe. He was drafted in the 1st round of the 2005 MLB Draft by the Boston Red Sox. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jacoby Ellsbury」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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