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 Wally Joyner - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Wally Joyner (born June 16, 1962 in Atlanta, Georgia) is a former first baseman in Major League Baseball.
Joyner was grazed on the left arm by the butt end of the weapon, escaping injury.
In November of 2005 for an interview with ESPN The Magazine, Joyner admitted to using steroids given to him by the late Ken Caminiti while they were both with the 1998 Padres.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wally_Joyner   (265 words)

  
 Wally Joyner BaseballLibrary.com
Joyner stayed with the team until 1995, when he was traded with pitcher Aaron Dorlarque to the San Diego Padres for the versatile Bip Roberts and pitcher Bryan Wolff.
In 1987 Joyner was the team's MVP as he clubbed 34 homers, a franchise record for first basemen, and became the ninth player in ML history with back-to-back 100-RBI seasons as a rookie and sophomore.
The Padres traded Joyner along with Quilvio Veras and Reggie Sanders to the Atlanta Braves for Ryan Klesko and Jason Shiell during the winter meetings of December 1999.
www.baseballlibrary.com /baseballlibrary/ballplayers/J/Joyner_Wally.stm   (1199 words)

  
 ana_20010616_joyner_news.jsp
Wally Joyner announced his retirement Saturday, on his 39th birthday, leaving as abruptly as he had arrived 15 years earlier, with a boyish smile and a perfect, and perfectly lethal, swing.
ANAHEIM, Calif. -- After 2,033 games, Wally Joyner knew this would be the last one.
Joyner derived great satisfaction from successfully making his way back from a series of injuries that had limited him to a total of 547 at-bats in the 1999 and 2000.
www.mlb.com /NASApp/mlb/mlb/news/ana_20010616_joyner_news.jsp   (993 words)

  
 BASEBALL NOTE
The ballpark in Anaheim became known as "Wally World" and Joyner avoided the sophomore jinx by hitting 34 homers and driving in 117 runs in 1987.
Joyner became a cult hero for the Angels in 1986, earning a berth on the All-Star team as a rookie.
In his new role, Joyner will assist Towers in various aspects of baseball operations, including talent evaluation within the organization and at the major league level.
www.canoe.ca /StatsBBN/BC-BBN-LGNS-SDGJOYNER-R.html   (257 words)

  
 ap_20010125_3a70bfa7__2001__6_news.jsp
Wally Joyner, who played his first major league seasons in Anaheim, signed a minor league contract with the Angels on Thursday and will attend spring training as a non-roster invitee.
Joyner, 38, is a potential replacement at first base for Mo Vaughn, who will be sidelined for at least six months after undergoing surgery Feb. 6 to repair a ruptured biceps tendon in his left arm.
Joyner backed up Andres Galarraga at first base for the Atlanta Braves last season and hit.281 with five home runs and 32 RBIs.
www.mlb.com /NASApp/mlb/mlb/news/ap_20010125_3a70bfa7__2001__6_news.jsp   (205 words)

  
 Wally Joyner - RBIdb
Wally Joyner is the starting first-baseman and #3 hitter for California on the NES version of RBI.
Wally Joyner is a stud in RBI, there is no doubt.
Joyner and Reggie Jackson make one of the most feared back-to-back duos in the game.
dee-nee.com /wiki/index.php/Wally_Joyner   (176 words)

  
 Wally Joyner Baseball Stats by Baseball Almanac
Wally Joyner was born on Saturday, June 16 1962, in Atlanta, Georgia.
His biographical data, year-by-year hitting stats, fielding stats, pitching stats (where applicable), career totals, uniform numbers, salary data and miscellaneous items-of-interest are presented by Baseball Almanac on this comprehensive Wally Joyner baseball stats page.
Did you know that you can compare Wally Joyner to other rookies who also had their Major League debut during the 1986 American League season?
www.baseball-almanac.com /players/player.php?p=joynewa01   (280 words)

  
 deseretnews.com Crosby: Still a natural
Wally Joyner, Crosby's father, was an All-Star first baseman for the California Angels.
Joyner squeezes free, and within a moment she is striding across the grass as the defense gives chase.
Joyner agreed: "Teams are putting their most physical player on me. They are playing me a lot closer off the ball, and they grab me when I try to make a move.
deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,605154511,00.html   (645 words)

  
 CNNSI.com - MLB Baseball - Angels 1B Wally Joyner announces retirement - Saturday June 16, 2001 06:18 PM
The ballpark in Anaheim became known as "Wally World" and Joyner avoided the sophomore jinx by hitting 34 homers and driving in 117 runs in 1987.
CNNSI.com - MLB Baseball - Angels 1B Wally Joyner announces retirement - Saturday June 16, 2001 06:18 PM baseball
Joyner spent his first six years with Anaheim before moving on to Kansas City and San Diego for four seasons.
sportsillustrated.cnn.com /baseball/mlb/al/news/2001/anajoyner   (289 words)

  
 News and Notes
Joyner was mired in a 4-for-28 slump in his last 10 games and did not play in Wednesday's come-from-behind 7-6 victory over St. Louis.
Joyner is hitting.221 with one homer and 11 RBI.
The 14-year veteran is in his fourth season with the Padres and came into the campaign with a.282 career batting average.
members.aol.com /CruiznSD/archives/1999/0520.html   (151 words)

  
 Netsports Community Forums - Wally Joyner took steroids.
Former Padres first baseman Wally Joyner said in an ESPN The Magazine article that he took steroids he received from teammate Ken Caminiti while they played for the Padres in 1998.
Joyner and Caminiti helped lead the Padres to their second World Series appearance that year.
According to the article, Joyner admitted he asked Caminiti to get him steroids and ingested some, but he said he then threw the rest away because he regretted his actions.
forums.netsports.com /showthread.php?threadid=49974   (206 words)

  
 News and Notes
Wally Joyner, prior to 1999 before he suffered the shoulder injury, put up very, very good numbers offensively, and of course is regarded as one of the finest first baseman defensively around.''
Joyner, 37, promised that next season will be better than 1999, when he slumped badly, in part because of a fracture in his left shoulder.
Joyner goes to the Braves along with second baseman and leadoff hitter Quilvio Veras and left fielder Reggie Sanders.
members.aol.com /CruiznSD/archives/1999/1222.html   (818 words)

  
 deseretnews.com Joyner was tempted to use illegal steroids
Former Major League and BYU baseball star Wally Joyner was briefly tempted by steroids toward the end of his professional career, according to a 16-page examination of steroid use in baseball published in the latest edition of ESPN The Magazine.
Atlanta Braves Wally Joyner connects for his 2,000th base hit off of Arizona Diamondbacks in 2000.
Caminiti supplied Joyner with steroids, the report claims, but Joyner only took a few pills in a two-week period and then threw the rest away when he regretted taking any of the pills.
deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,635159841,00.html   (363 words)

  
 BYU NewsNet - Joyner back in his old stomping grounds at BYU
Joyner said the good part of his job is it allows him to be home 10 to 11 days a month during the summer with his family, something he couldn't do as a player.
Joyner tries to give the players five different approaches to hitting a baseball and then finds the approach that works for each individual hitter.
Joyner is a roving hitting instructor for the Sand Diego Padres' minor league system.
newsnet.byu.edu /story.cfm/45128   (1030 words)

  
 JS Online: Nevin Travels to First Base
Joyner, a college teammate of Padres general manager Kevin Towers at Brigham Young, was hired as Tower's special assistant last winter.
Joyner hit grounders to Nevin for about 20 minutes Tuesday, then joined Nevin behind the batting-practice screen as the shortstops fired throws to first.
Joyner believes Nevin ultimately will extend his career by playing the position.
www.jsonline.com /sports/brew/ap/feb02/ap-bbn-padres-nevi021902.asp?format=print   (441 words)

  
 CBS News 7 More File For Free-Agency December 13, 1999 05:18:47
SAN DIEGO -- Free agent Wally Joyner took a pay cut to re-sign with the San Diego Padres, agreeing Thursday to a two-year contact with an option for a third year.
Joyner is the first free agent to re-sign with the Padres; others include pitcher Kevin Brown, third baseman Ken Caminiti, outfielder Steve Finely and catcher Carlos Hernandez.
Joyner batted.298 with 12 home runs and 80 RBI in his third season with the Padres and his 13th in the major leagues.
www.cbsnews.com /stories/1998/10/30/archive/main21368.shtml   (506 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - AL West
Joyner, hitting.243 with three homers and 14 RBI in diminished playing time, had planned to retire at the end of the season.
Joyner said he has talked with the Angels about a coaching position in the organization, and the team was "receptive."
Joyner beat out Barnes for the starting job at first base in spring training.
www.usatoday.com /sports/bbw/2001-06-20/2001-06-20-alwest.htm   (1029 words)

  
 NetShrine Discussion Forum - Say good-bye to Wally World
Joyner's towering homers into the right-field seats at the former "Big A" -- the first one coming off Seattle's Milt Wilcox on April 16, 1986-- resulted in that area of the ballpark being nicknamed "Wally World" after the fictional amusement park in the movie, "National Lampoon's Vacation."
Joyner hit.290 as a rookie in 1986 with 22 home runs and 100 RBIs, finishing second to Jose Canseco in the voting for AL rookie of the year.
Joyner spent the first six years of his career with the Angels before returning this season.
www.netshrine.com /vbulletin2/printthread.php?t=413   (616 words)

  
 Wally World
His Jersey was just retired by the Peoria Suns, in his honor they also had Wally Joyner bobble head night.
This page is about Wally Joyner, THE GREATEST baseball player ever.
Wally was named the Padres minor league hitting coordinator on December 20, 2002.
www.angelfire.com /celeb/wallyworld21   (225 words)

  
 Gaslamp Ball :: Wally Joyner took roids? What?
Wally made it sound like he asked for them and tried them, but really didn't want to do it.
I caught a few minutes of the Wally segment on Sportscenter this morning and I was disappointed in Wally.
Joyner took them for a couple days then felt "dirty" and flushed the rest down the toilet.
www.gaslampball.com /story/2005/11/8/144459/621   (943 words)

  
 SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Opinion -- The steroid stall
Joyner's flirtation with steroids, though brief, nevertheless illustrates the seductive nature of performance enhancing drugs in sports.
As quoted by ESPN The Magazine last week, Joyner said he obtained a supply of steroids from fellow Padres star Ken Caminiti, but took the pills for only a few days before regretting it and throwing the rest away.
His admission also illustrates the sad fact that, even though the abuse of steroids in sports already had been a public issue for years by that time, their prevalence in the locker room remained.
www.signonsandiego.com /news/op-ed/editorial1/20051114-9999-mz1ed14top.html   (408 words)

  
 How did Bret Boone leave the braves? - BravesBeat.com Forums
Wally Joyner was a solid addition considered he provided an alternative in case the Big Cat didn't come back well.
Braves acquired second baseman Quilvio Veras, outfielder Reggie Sanders and first baseman Wally Joyner and send Bret Boone, Ryan Klesko and minor league pitcher Jason Shiell to the Padres.
Veras at Second base, Sanders for the Outfield, and Joyner (who had long been coveted by GM John Schuerholz) as a backup firstbaseman - in the event that Andres Galarragas' recovery from lymphoma took longer than expected.
www.bravesbeat.com /boards/index.php?showtopic=5955   (3386 words)

  
 Wally's whirl
 Wally Joyner has put up numbers like no other Edmonton Trapper grad in history.
 Joyner says he doesn't think about it any more and he won't be thinking about it in Game 1 tonight.
Always has since one of the sub-species that inhabits this storied stadium threw a knife at him when he was here in 1987 with the Angels, hitting him wrong-end first in the shoulder.
www.canoe.ca /Baseball98Playoffs/oct17_bbledm.html   (866 words)

  
 HOUGH'S NO-HIT BID IN '86 STILL HAUNTING VALENTINE
Joyner, running on the pitch, came all the way home when Hough failed to cover the plate and Mercado was unable to throw out Hendrick.
Joyner still might have singled with two outs, but the dominoes might not have fallen so harshly.
As it happened, Joyner went to second on a strikeout and passed ball on former Tide Orlando Mercado for the second out.
scholar.lib.vt.edu /VA-news/VA-Pilot/issues/1994/vp940814/08150130.htm   (709 words)

  
 Chronicles of the Lads
Wally Joyner was allowed to leave the team after the 1991 season.
Aside from letting Joyner go, either by choice or by Jackie Autry's tight pursestrings, he also let Dave Winfield leave.
These guys had combined for an OPS+ in the mid-120s in 1991, and drove in 182 runs between them; these were pretty much the two guys on the team that could hit.
anaheimangelsblog.blogspot.com /2005/04/rise-fall-and-rise-again-1995-angels.html   (1463 words)

  
 Mormon News for WE 13 April 2001
Wally Joyner returns to Major League Baseball's Anaheim Angels as a veteran first baseman, just when the team needed him.
Wally is back with the Angels, and the big question is whether he can recreate Wall World.
But at the end of his career, Joyner doesn't have the promise he had in 1986, when he first joined the Angels as a rookie.
www.mormonstoday.com /010413/index.shtml   (571 words)

  
 USATODAY.com
WALLY JOYNER RETURNS to the place where he started his career.
A pessimist would say the Angels added a journeyman pitcher (Pat Rapp), a head case (Ismael Valdes), an injury-prone DH (Jose Canseco) and a washed-up first baseman (Wally Joyner) this winter.
Joyner, whom the Angels signed after Vaughn was lost for the season with a torn biceps tendon, is expected to start at first about five days a week if he beats out Scott Spiezio and Larry Barnes for the job.
www.usatoday.com /sports/bbw/2001-02-21/2001-02-21-angels.htm   (613 words)

  
 Mormon News for WE 22 June 2001: Sports News
Joyner's retirement officially closes "Wally World," the nickname fans gave to the area of the stands where Joyner hit many of his home runs in his first two very productive years.
After 16 seasons in the major leagues, Wally Joyner has retired from the team where he started his career, the Anaheim Angels.
In an emotional press conference Saturday afternoon, on his 39th birthday, LDS baseball player Wally Joyner announced his retirement after 16 years playing first base for four different major league teams.
www.mormonstoday.com /010622/SSports.shtml   (696 words)

  
 Sports Illustrated: The wonderful world of Wally. (Angels' Wally Joyner)@ HighBeam Research
You'll find the boyish-looking rookie attraction, Angel first baseman Wally Joyner, in the left side of the batter's box doing his usual Vic Power imitation, sweeping his bat low across the plate like a broom while he awaits the next pitch.
Wally World opened at Anaheim Stadium this month.
Here is your free guide to Wally World -- please take it and stepto the right.
www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:4253898&refid=holomed_1   (197 words)

  
 Report: Joyner got steroids from Caminiti - Baseball - MSNBC.com
Former All-Star first baseman Wally Joyner took steroids he received from former teammate Ken Caminiti, according to a detailed report about the spread of the drug throughout baseball by ESPN The Magazine.
Former All-Star first baseman Wally Joyner played from 1986 through 2001 for the Angels, Royals, Padres and Braves.
Joyner ingested pills for some time before throwing them away after regretting what he did.
www.msnbc.msn.com /id/9991748   (556 words)

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