Mike Piazza
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"Michael Joseph Piazza" is an American former Major League Baseball catcher. He most notably played in his career with the New York Mets and also spent time with the Florida Marlins, San Diego Padres, Oakland Athletics, and Los Angeles Dodgers, with whom he was named the National League Rookie of the Year .

A 12-time Major League Baseball All-Star Game/All-Star, Piazza has been described as the best offensive catcher of all time, and holds the record for home runs hit by a catcher, with a career total of 427. Piazza has a career Glossary of baseball (S)#slash line/slash line of .308/.377/.545, for a [http://www.fangraphs.com/library/offense/wrc/ wRC+] of 140; and started 1606 games at catcher. He had at least one Run batted in/RBI in 15 consecutive games for the New York Mets in , the second-longest RBI streak ever (Ray Grimes of the Chicago Cubs had 17 consecutive games.)

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To get a game snatched like that is gut-wrenching, really.

I'm definitely being spoiled, ... I hope we get a lot more ovations. I'm really honored. It's one of those fortunate things for me.

I have gone from a player who thought he would spend his whole career with one organization to a player who's been with three organizations in a week. It's like rotisserie baseball.

Next thing you know, ... two runs have scored.

It's definitely not fun. It's a hurdle. It's just another thing you have to go through here. I think it's a rite of passage.

Please don't quote me.

Never let your dreams go away.

You can't get real happy or real depressed when you play baseball. Baseball is a great sport in that it offers a player a lot of opportunities for atonement.

You don't want to turn away from it. You may want to and no one would begrudge you if you did. But you shouldn't do that. I think I'm a better person because of what I went through.