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Davey Lopes - Baseball (1967) and Basketball (1967-68)
In one year on the Washburn baseball team Davey Lopes put together the kinds of credentials that led to a very successful Major League career. In 1967 Lopes batted .380 for the Ichabods and slugged .793 with nine home runs, three doubles and four triples. He was inducted into the Washburn Athletic Hall of Fame in 1987.
Lopes earned All-America honors that year and the following winter he earned the same honors as a guard on the Washburn men's basketball team. He shot 50 percent from the field and averaged 7.6 points a game.
Lopes was drafted in the 1968 amateur draft in the second round by the Los Angeles Dodgers and he made his big league debut in 1972. By his second year he was an everyday player and in 1974 he went 5-for-5 with three homers against the Chicago Cubs at Wrigley Field. In 1975 he led the National League with 77 steals, including 38 in a row, then a record.
In 1978 he played in his first of four-straight All-Star games and the next year he hit a career-high 28 homers, then the third most ever by a second baseman. In 1980 he was the top vote getter for the All-Star game.
In 1982 Lopes went from LA to Oakland. He played there for three seasons and teamed with Rickey Henderson in 1982 to steal 158 bases, the most by a pair of teammates.
He then finished his career with the Cubs for parts of three seasons and the Houston Astros for parts of two seasons. In 1985, at age 40 he hit a career-high .284 for the Cubs. He stole his 400th career base and hit his 100th homer that year.
In 1987 shoulder injury ended his playing career. He finished with 557 stolen bases, 155 home runs and a .263 batting average.
Lopes went on to coach with the Texas Rangers, Baltimore Orioles and San Diego Padres before managing the Milwaukee Brewers from 2000-2002. He had a record of 144-195. Lopes rejoined the Padres as first base coach from 2003-05 and then held the same position with the Washington Nationals in 2006, the Philadelphia Phillies from 2007-10, the Los Angeles Dodgers from 2011-2015 before finishing his career with the Washington Nationals from 2016-17.
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