Batting average .223 Runs 69 Weight 88 kg Hits 174 Height 1.83 m | Runs batted in 107 Role Baseball player Home runs 28 Name Danny Walton | |
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Daniel James Walton (July 14, 1947 – August 9, 2017) was an American Major League Baseball outfielder. He played for the Houston Astros (1968 and 1977), Seattle Pilots (1969), Milwaukee Brewers (1970–71), New York Yankees (1971), Minnesota Twins (1973 and 1975), Los Angeles Dodgers (1976), Yokohama Taiyo Whales (1978), and Texas Rangers (1980). During a 9-year major league baseball career, he hit .223, 28 home runs, and 107 runs batted in.
Walton, along with Sandy Valdespino, was traded from the Houston Astros to the Seattle Pilots for Tommy Davis on August 31, 1969. Popular with the Brewers fans who sat in the left field bleachers at Milwaukee County Stadium, Walton was dealt to the New York Yankees for Bobby Mitchell and Frank Tepedino on June 7, 1971. Walton was sent by the Yankees to the Minnesota Twins for Rick Dempsey on October 31, 1972.
Walton died August 9, 2017, in Morgan, Utah, aged 70.
