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Hernandez, Keith
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Keith Hernandez was born on October 20, 1953 in San Francisco, California. He is a former first baseman who played most of his career with the World Series-winning Major League teams, St. Louis Cardinals and the New York Mets. Some of his other awards include earning eleven consecutive Gold Gloves and the National League co-MVP Award. After retiring from the game, he has worked in television broadcasting as an analyst on Mets telecasts for the SNY, WPIX, and MSG networks and is a member of the FOX Sports MLB postseason studio team. He is the author of If at First: A Season with the Mets (1986), Pure Baseball: Pitch by Pitch for the Advanced Fan (1994), First-Base Hero (2005), Shea Good-Bye: The Untold Inside Story of the Historic 2008 Season (2009), Mookie: Life, Baseball, and the '86 Mets (2014), and I'm Keith Hernandez: A Memoir (2018)
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