Don Buford

Donald Alvin Buford was born on February 2, 1937, in Linden, Texas, and grew up in Los Angeles, where he starred in football and baseball at Susan Miller Dorsey High School. A switch-hitting outfielder and infielder who stood 5'7" and weighed 160 pounds, he played in Major League Baseball from 1963 through 1972 with the Chicago White Sox and Baltimore Orioles. Buford served as the leadoff hitter for the Orioles clubs that won three consecutive American League pennants from 1969 to 1971 and took the 1970 World Series over the Cincinnati Reds. He later played in Nippon Professional Baseball from 1973 to 1976. In 1993, he was inducted into the Baltimore Orioles Hall of Fame.