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Where are they now? Bill North: former Oakland athletics outfielder: one-time American League base stealing champ played 11 seasons in the majors and was part of 1973-1974 World Series club.
HE WOULD PREFER THAT YOU call him Bill North, not Billy, now that he's a Kirkland financial planner, and likely a good one considering what he accomplished in his baseball career.
North started small and built himself into something big.
"He was always the third- or four- or fifth-best player, never the best," said Booth Gardner, North's first coach with his Broadway Kiwanis Little League team. "I was really glad to see him make it to Oakland."
North, 55, played 11 major league seasons with the A's, Chicago Cubs, Los Angeles Dodgers and San Francisco Giants, appearing in three World Series and collecting two title rings with Oakland.
He was a base-stealer extraordinaire, collecting 395 in his career, and twice leading the American League--with a big league-best 75 thefts in 1976 and 54 in 1974. He had two other seasons of 53 or more.
Yet while growing up, from his Little League teams to Garfield High School in Seattle, North found himself stuck in one place, not going anywhere.
"I wasn't a very good player," he says now.
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