![]() ![]() Swisher was selected by the Oakland Athletics in the first round (16th overall) of the 2002 Major League Baseball draft with a pick they received from the Boston Red Sox as compensation for the signing of free agent Johnny Damon by the Red Sox. He earned All-Big Ten honors as an outfielder in 2002, after batting. 322 with 56 RBI and a league-leading 15 home runs. He was an All-Big Ten selection as a first baseman as a sophomore in 2001, after hitting. In 2000, he played collegiate summer baseball with the Wareham Gatemen of the Cape Cod Baseball League. 299 with 10 home runs and 48 runs batted in (RBI). Playing for the Ohio State Buckeyes baseball team in the Big Ten Conference, Swisher was named Big Ten Freshman of the Year in 2000, after hitting. Undrafted out of high school, Swisher enrolled at Ohio State University, as that school and Ohio University were the only colleges to recruit him for baseball. As a strong safety on his football team, he was recruited by several Division I-A college football programs, including the University of Notre Dame, but chose to pursue baseball. Swisher attended Parkersburg High School where he was a three-sport star, playing football and baseball, while lettering in basketball. He then went to live with his grandparents in Parkersburg, West Virginia, who raised him during his teenage years. Swisher's parents divorced when he was 11 years old. His mother was of part Italian descent her grandfather immigrated to the Buffalo, New York area from the town of Oliveri, in Sicily. Swisher was born in Columbus, Ohio, the son of Lillian Marie (Vaught) Malizia and Steve Swisher, a former major leaguer. He played in New York for four years before signing with the Cleveland Indians prior to the 2013 season. After he spent one year with the White Sox in 2008, the Yankees acquired him prior to the start of the 2009 campaign. Drafted by the A's in the 2002 MLB draft, Swisher made his MLB debut with the Athletics in 2004, and played for the team through 2007. Before his professional career, Swisher played college baseball for the Ohio State Buckeyes. Swisher was born in Columbus, Ohio, but grew up in Parkersburg, West Virginia. Swisher is the son of former MLB catcher Steve Swisher, who played for various National League baseball clubs in the 1970s and 1980s. ![]() A power hitter with excellent plate discipline, Swisher hit at least 20 home runs in each of nine consecutive seasons from 2005 to 2013, and reached 75 bases on balls on seven occasions in that span. He won the 2009 World Series with the Yankees against the Philadelphia Phillies and was an All-Star in 2010. He was a switch hitter who threw left-handed, and played for the Oakland Athletics, Chicago White Sox, New York Yankees, Cleveland Indians and Atlanta Braves. Nicholas Thompson Swisher (born November 25, 1980) is an American former professional baseball outfielder and first baseman in Major League Baseball (MLB). September 3, 2004, for the Oakland Athletics ![]()
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