Lee Jong-beom
South Korean baseball player
Lee Jong-beom (Korean: 이종범; born August 15, 1970) is a South Korean former professional baseball player who played for the Kia Tigers (formerly the Haitai Tigers) in the KBO League and the Chunichi Dragons in Japan from 1998 to 2001. He is nicknamed "Son of the Wind" (바람의 아들) for his speed. (He was also known as "Baseball Genius" and the "Korean Ichiro".) Lee is widely considered one of the best five-tool players in Korean baseball history, and the best all-around KBO player of the 1990s.
Lee was the 1994 KBO League MVP, a 13-time KBO All Star, and a six-time winner of the KBO League Golden Glove Award. He holds the single-season stolen base record in the KBO, with 84, and once hit .393 in a season, second-best all-time. Lee also won the Korean Series Most Valuable Player Award twice (his Tigers won four Korean Series championships). Lee's number 7 was retired by the Kia Tigers in 2012.
He started his career at shortstop, where he played through 1997, and mainly played outfield in later years.
Career
Lee graduated from Gwangju Jeil High School, where he excelled in baseball, leading his team to the Cheongryonggi championship as a senior. After leading the Konkuk University baseball team to a victory in the College Baseball Fall League in 1992, Lee was drafted in the first round by the KIA Tigers (Haitai Tigers at the time) in 1993
He burst onto the KBO scene as a rookie shortstop in 1993, leading the league in runs, stealing 73 bases, being named to the All-Star team, winning a Golden Glove Award, and leading the Tigers to the Korean Series championship.
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