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'''Johnny David Damon''' (born November 5, 1973 in Fort Riley, Kansas) is a Major League Baseball outfielder who plays center field for the New York Yankees.
Early life
His mother, Yome, is Thai and his father, Jimmy, is white American. They met while his father was serving as a staff sergeant in the United States Army. Johnny was born on an Army base and spent much of his early childhood as an "Army brat," moving to several bases before his father left the Army and settled the family in the Orlando area.
[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0198934/bio]Playing career
Damon was selected by the Kansas City Royals in the first round of the 1992 amateur draft out of Orlando's Dr. Phillips High School, where he had been teammates with A. J. Pierzynski; he was the 35th pick overall. He played for the Royals from 1995 to 2000, and spent 2001 with the Oakland Athletics. He spent 2002 to 2005 with the Boston Red Sox before signing as a free agent with the New York Yankees on December 20, 2005.
As a part of his exercise routine, Johnny admits to pursuing cars from one end of his block to the other on foot. "I live on a street (in the Orlando area) where the speed limit is 25 miles an hour and the police enforce it. At night, I'd wait out there and when a car came by I would race the car home, so I think I can go at least 25 miles an hour. I scared some of the people, seeing a caveman racing after cars," said Damon in a Providence newspaper article early in 2004. (Note that it is unlikely that Damon reached speeds of 25 miles per hour. Such speeds have been acheived by only a handful of world class sprinters.)
In the postseason, Damon hit .283 with 4 home runs and 13 RBI in 2001 and 2003-2005.
Boston Red Sox
On June 27, 2003, Damon joined a very exclusive group of Major League Baseball players by recording three base hits in the first inning of a game against the Florida Marlins. The Red Sox scored 14 runs in that inning, and 10 runs before a single out was recorded. The Red Sox won the game 25-8. http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/boxscore?gameId=230627102
Despite the impressive game, it was during the 2004 season when Damon began to re-establish himself among the premier lead-off hitters and center fielders in the game today. In arguably his best season as a Major Leaguer,
