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Willie Aikens was born on 14 October, 1954 in Seneca, South Carolina, U.S., is an American baseball player. Discover Willie Aikens's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 69 years old?

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Age 69 years old
Zodiac Sign Libra
Born 14 October, 1954
Birthday 14 October
Birthplace Seneca, South Carolina, U.S.
Nationality United States

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1926

Aikens hit two home runs in Game 1 (his 26th birthday) and Game 4 of the World Series.

He was, until Chase Utley accomplished the same feat in, the only player in World Series history to hit two home runs in the same game twice during the same World Series.

He also collected the game-winning RBI in the tenth inning of Game 3, the Royals' first-ever win of a World Series game.

Aikens batted .400, but the Royals lost the World Series in six games.

1954

Willie Mays Aikens (born October 14, 1954) is an American professional baseball first baseman who played in Major League Baseball for the California Angels, Kansas City Royals, and Toronto Blue Jays between 1977 and 1985.

He had established himself as one of the top sluggers in the game before drugs derailed his career.

1975

While playing in Baltimore, he caught the attention of California Angels scout Walter Youse and was selected by the Angels with the number two overall pick in the January 1975 MLB draft.

1976

Aikens soon emerged as one of the top sluggers in California's farm system, hitting a league-leading thirty home runs and driving in 117 runs for the El Paso Diablos in 1976.

After having come up short in 1976, 1977 and 1978, the Royals swept the Yankees in three games in the 1980 American League Championship Series to face the Philadelphia Phillies in the World Series.

1977

He began the 1977 season at the Angels Triple-A affiliate in Salt Lake City where he hit 14 home runs and with a strong .336.

batting average.

He was called up to the Angels major league roster at the end of the Minor League season in September where in 91 at-bats in 42 games he hit a very unimpressive .198 and failed to hit his first major league home run.

1978

Aikens returned to his slugging ways in 1978, batting .326 with 29 home runs and 110 runs batted in (RBIs) for the Pacific Coast League's Salt Lake City Gulls.

1979

He returned to the majors in 1979, assuming DH duties and replacing Rod Carew at first base in June and July while Carew was out with a thumb injury and was very productive.

He batted .280 with 21 home runs and 81 RBIs his rookie season.

The Angels traded Aikens and Rance Mulliniks to the Kansas City Royals for Al Cowens and Todd Cruz at the Winter Meetings on December 6, 1979, with Craig Eaton being sent to California to complete the transaction four months later on April 1, 1980.

1980

Aikens inherited the first base job upon his arrival in Kansas City despite not being a very good fielder (he committed a league-leading 12 errors in 1980).

Recovering from knee surgery, he got off to a slow start but hit well in the second half of the season.

He finished second to George Brett on his team in both home runs and RBIs with 20 and 98, respectively.

The Royals won their division by 14 games to face the New York Yankees in the American League Championship Series for the third time in four years.

1981

Aikens led the Royals in both home runs and RBIs in the strike shortened 1981 season.

His Royals returned to the postseason, but were swept by the Oakland Athletics in the 1981 American League Division Series.

For his part, Aikens batted .333 (three for nine) and also reached base three times via base on balls.

However, he failed to score or drive in any runs.

1983

Aikens batted over .300 for the first time in his career in 1983, only to see his career rapidly begin to decline afterwards.

Toward the end of the 1983 season, Aikens and several of his Royals teammates were questioned by U.S. attorney Jim Marquez in connection with a federal cocaine probe.

Following the season, Aikens, Jerry Martin and Willie Wilson pleaded guilty to attempting to purchase cocaine, while former teammate Vida Blue pleaded guilty to possession of three grams of cocaine.

Aikens, Blue, Martin and Wilson were all sentenced to three months in prison.

Shortly after Aikens' November 17 sentencing, the Royals traded him to the Toronto Blue Jays for designated hitter Jorge Orta.

Aikens was originally suspended by Baseball Commissioner Bowie Kuhn for a year.

1984

Following a May 15, 1984 review, he was reinstated.

In 93 games, Aikens hit 11 home runs and drove in 26.

1985

The Blue Jays released Aikens a month into the 1985 season, and re-signed him to a minor league contract.

In his final major league at bat, on April 27, Aikens hit a pinch-hit two-run home run in the ninth inning to tie the ballgame—the Blue Jays won the game in the tenth inning.

Nevertheless, Aikens was let go and despite a healthy .311 batting average and 16 home runs with the Syracuse Chiefs, he never returned to the majors.

1994

In 1994, Aikens was sentenced to 20 years in prison on four counts of crack cocaine distribution and one count of use of a firearm during drug trafficking.

2008

He was released on June 4, 2008, after changes in federal drug laws, and is sometimes cited as an example of the results of mandatory maximum sentencing in drug-related crimes.

Aikens grew up in poverty in the Bruce Hill community of Seneca, South Carolina.

He was a standout athlete in baseball, football and basketball at Seneca High School, and attended historically black South Carolina State University on a baseball and football scholarship.

When S.C. State dropped baseball after Aikens' freshman year, Willie McNeil, Aikens' high school baseball coach, helped him catch on with a semi-professional summer baseball league in Baltimore, Maryland.