Mark Bellhorn

“We wouldn’t have won the World Series without him.” – Kevin Millar1

Mark Bellhorn is quite possibly the most underrated player on the 2004 Red Sox team. While other players like David Ortiz, Curt Schilling, or Dave Roberts rightfully garner much praise for the success of the Red Sox’ 2004 championship run, Bellhorn and his exploits receive relatively little attention. However, it can be successfully argued that without Bellhorn and his clutch play in the postseason, the Red Sox would not have won that World Series in 2004. Sportswriter Jackie MacMullan said of the switch-hitting second baseman, “You forget about Mark Bellhorn. He lulls you to sleep with those droopy eyes and that droopy hair and his insistence on examining every pitch as though it is a rare piece of art.” MacMullan encapsulated fans’ feelings about the switch-hitting Bellhorn, saying, “He’ll drive you crazy this second baseman, who takes and takes pitches until he either walks or strikes out. Or hits incredible clutch home runs to win it.”2

After a professional career that started in 1997 with the Oakland Athletics and led to short stints with the Chicago Cubs and Colorado Rockies, Bellhorn landed with the Red Sox. It was there that, in the 2004 season, he put up career numbers in walks (88), strikeouts (177), and on-base percentage (.373).

After helping the team win the World Series and ending the 86-year drought that had plagued the organization and its fans, Bellhorn was released on August 19, 2005, and picked up by the rival New York Yankees on August 30. His time there was short-lived. He appeared in just nine games, with just two base hits, and was released after the season. He signed with the San Diego Padres and spent the 2006 season with them before signing with the Cincinnati Reds in 2007. A free agent once again, he signed a minor-league contract with the Los Angeles Dodgers in 2008. Bellhorn finished his career as a second baseman for the Colorado Rockies’ Triple-A affiliate at Colorado Springs in 2009.

Mark Christian Bellhorn was born on August 23, 1974, in South Weymouth, Massachusetts, to Theodore Bellhorn, a veterinarian who was a 1973 graduate of Auburn University, and Marilyn Bellhorn.3 Shortly after Mark’s birth, his family moved to Oviedo, a suburb of Orlando, Florida. Mark played basketball and baseball at Oviedo High School, graduating in 1992. Mark’s mother had been a teacher but stayed home to take care of her child. Unsure of where his plate discipline developed, Bellhorn said, “Probably in high school. I think I was always that type of hitter. I always took pride in having a high on-base percentage. I always worked the count. I always liked to get into the at-bat and get a feel for what the pitcher was trying to do. I was trying to get hitter’s counts (ex. 1-0, 2-0, 3-1) where I knew a fastball was coming.”4

Bellhorn was drafted out of high school by the San Diego Padres in the 37th round of the June 1992 amateur draft but chose to play baseball at Auburn University. Bellhorn said he didn’t feel ready for the professional baseball lifestyle and was more excited to play high-level college baseball. “I was picked in the 37th round and it didn’t make sense from a financial perspective,” he said. “I felt like I could do way better than 37th round, so maybe it gave me motivation.” Bellhorn played for Auburn from 1993 to 1995 and helped lead the Tigers to the College World Series in 1994. He played in the World Baseball Cup for Team USA in 1994. For Auburn he hit .342 in 1995, with 12 home runs, 60 RBIs, and 11 stolen bases. He was named an All-American by the American Baseball Coaches Association. For his college career he batted .322 with 25 home runs, 43 doubles, and 138 RBIs.

True to his expectations, Bellhorn was drafted in the second round in the 1995 draft, by the Oakland Athletics. With the Modesto Athletics of the advanced Class-A California League, he batted .258 with 6 home runs and 31 RBIs in 56 games.

For 1996 Bellhorn was moved up to the Huntsville Stars of the Double-A Southern League.  In his first 23 games he batted .321 and Bellhorn was named the Player of the Month for May by the A’s player development department. 

Stars manager Dick Scott remarked, “He has a lot of poise. There are not many switch-hitters who have the power he has. … He’s definitely a major-league prospect.” Bellhorn ended the season as a utility infielder playing 55 games at second base, 57 at shortstop, and 12 at third base. He batted .250 with 10 home runs, 71 RBIs, 19 stolen bases, and 73 walks.

Bellhorn moved up to the Triple-A Edmonton Trappers of the Pacific Coast League in 1997, batting .328 in 70 games. In June he was called up to the Athletics to replace second baseman Scott Spiezio, on the 15-day disabled list because of tendinitis in his right hand.5 He made his major-league debut on June 10, hitting an infield single off the Detroit Tigers’ Willie Blair in his first at- bat. Bellhorn appeared in 68 games, playing third base, second base, and shortstop and batting .228. His first major-league home run came off Derek Lowe in Seattle on June 23, 1997.

Bellhorn spent most of the 1998 season with Edmonton, playing in 87 games at all four infield positions. He was called up twice by Oakland and played in 11 games between May 17 and June 21. He spent most of the 1999 season on the sidelines because of a torn tendon in his left wrist, but spent time with the Arizona Rookie League A’s and the Midland Rockhounds of the Double-A Texas League.

Bellhorn played most of the 2000 season with the Sacramento River Cats, leading the PCL with 111 runs and 94 walks in 117 games. He finished second in the league with 24 home runs. Called up to Oakland in September, he was 2-for-13 in nine games.6

In 2001 Bellhorn played the outfield, a career first for him, in 18 games with Sacramento. He got into 38 games with the Athletics, as a utility infielder apart from one start in right field.7 In the offseason Bellhorn was traded to the Chicago Cubs for minor leaguer Adam Morrissey. The 2002 season was among the best of Bellhorn’s career. It was the first time in his career that he made the Opening Day roster, and he set a Cubs franchise record for home runs by a switch-hitter, hitting 27 round-trippers, a record that still stood in 2023. He played 77 games at second base but also spent time at the other three infield positions, and played one game (two innings) in left field.

On August 29, 2002, Bellhorn had the game of his career up to that point. Against the Brewers at Milwaukee’s Miller Park, Bellhorn hit a home run from each side of the plate in the fourth inning. The first, from the right side with one man on base, was a towering 410-foot blast off Andrew Lorraine that landed in the center-field bleachers.

Later in the inning, with two Cubs on base, he homered off José Cabrera, a 380-foot shot that landed in the right-field bleachers. This made Bellhorn the only National Leaguer to homer from both sides of the plate in the same inning, and one of only three major leaguers to homer from both sides of the plate in the same game.8 He finished the season with a .258 batting average, a career-high 27 home runs, and 56 RBIs in 146 games.

Bellhorn began the 2003 season as the Cubs’ starting third baseman, but his patient approach at the plate coupled with new manager Dusty Baker’s affinity for “aggressive” hitters saw Bellhorn traded in June to the Colorado Rockies. Of the trade, Bellhorn recalled in a 2005 interview, “I really don’t know what happened that year. I kind of got off to a slow start with a new manager. I knew Dusty liked big guys who were more aggressive-type hitters. I don’t know if he really liked my kind of approach.”9

Bellhorn and minor-league pitcher Travis Henderson were traded to the Rockies for All-Star shortstop José Hernández. Rockies manager Clint Hurdle spoke optimistically of Bellhorn, saying, “Two years ago he hammered the ball pretty well. We feel pretty confident that he is a guy that we can bring in here, and hopefully get offensively charged again.”10 But Bellhorn’s time in Colorado was marred by injury. He played in 48 games for the Rockies before being placed on the disabled list with tendinitis in his right shoulder, missing the first three weeks of August.  

Bellhorn was at a pivotal moment in his career. He said, “I just felt that I had finally broken into the big leagues the year before and then the next year I couldn’t do anything right. I lost playing time and felt very discouraged. I didn’t think the Rockies were going to sign me again and thought I would be back in Triple A again. I went to winter ball in Mexico to try to find something.”

Bellhorn was sent to the Red Sox in December; the team hoped he could fill the void at second base created by the departure of Todd Walker.11 Bellhorn was “excited for the new start, and the chance to prove himself.” While initially thought to be a utility infielder pickup for the Red Sox, he thought he had more to offer the team, and said, “I want to come in and compete for the second baseman’s job. If I don’t win it, then I can play a number of positions and help the team out.”12 The all-cash deal added depth to an infield that included Nomar Garciaparra, Pokey Reese, and Cesar Crespo. 

Garciaparra struggled with injury throughout spring training and into July, barely able to field routine grounders, and was no longer an everyday starter at shortstop. On July 31 he was sent to the Cubs in a four-team deal that brought Montreal Expos shortstop Orlando Cabrera, Minnesota Twins first baseman Doug Mientkiewicz, and Los Angeles Dodgers outfielder Dave Roberts to the Red Sox.

Shoring up Boston’s shaky defense led to a steadier role for Bellhorn in 2004. The extra playing time helped propel him to the best season of his career. Bellhorn started at second base, splitting time with the light-hitting Pokey Reese while Orlando Cabrera played consistently at shortstop.

The Red Sox started out hot, with a record of 15-6, but a losing streak in May saw the team play .500 baseball for the next three months. After the Garciaparra trade, the Red Sox offense caught fire. By the end of the season, Manny Ramírez and David Ortiz each had more than 40 home runs and, Johnny Damon hit .304 with 123 RBIs. Curt Schilling won 21 games while Pedro Martínez won 16, and the revamped defense was good enough to make Boston’s pitching rotation one to be reckoned with.

Bellhorn played in 138 games, mostly at second base, with a .264 batting average, a .373 OBP, 17 home runs, and 82 RBIs. His 177 strikeouts were most in the American League but his 88 walks were third in the AL. Manager Terry Francona commented, “His concept of the strike zone has always been good. … We knew coming in he could work the pitcher and run up the counts.”13 Perhaps the highest praise came from hitting coach Ron Jackson: “It’s hard to explain his approach, but when you look around, if you go to sleep on him – BAM – he’s going to bust you.”14

In the American League Division Series, the Red Sox swept the Anaheim Angels, outscoring them 25-12. Bellhorn went 1-for-11 at the plate (.091), but drew five walks for a .375 OBP. He said, “I always struck out throughout my career. I know a lot of people think of that as a negative but that was part of my game. I always worked the count deep, so I wasn’t a guy who swung at the first pitch. I don’t think I struck out a lot in the clutch.”15

In the American League Championship Series, Boston faced a New York Yankees team that had beaten them in 2003. The Red Sox dropped the first two games, at Yankee Stadium, then returned to Fenway Park only to be routed by the Yankees in Game Three, 19-8.

Both Bellhorn and Damon were having uncharacteristically difficult times at the plate during the ALCS. In four games Bellhorn had managed one hit and one RBI in 16 plate appearances. Teammate Dave Roberts said, “I tried to be a teammate, psychologist, and friend, pumping them up, telling them to be positive. They were getting booed, and I kept telling them to keep their heads high.”16 While Damon was not being screamed at by fans to take himself out of the lineup, Bellhorn was. He recalled, “What a great guy and teammate Dave Roberts was. I remember quite clearly how they were getting on both me and Johnny. I guess that’s just part of the game, especially in places like Boston where the fans are so passionate about their sports and especially in the playoffs where everything is under a microscope.” He went on to say, “As a player you just block it out as much as possible and focus on the job at hand. Lean on your teammates.”

On the brink of extinction, the Red Sox won the legendary Game Four in 12 innings. Game Five went 14 innings, even longer than Game Four, and lasted 5 hours and 49 minutes, catapulting it to the top spot for the longest ALCS game. Red Sox relievers held the Yankees scoreless for the final eight innings. In the seventh inning, Bellhorn’s double off Mike Mussina prompted Yankees manager Joe Torre to bring in Tanyon Sturtze. The Red Sox tied the score in the eighth. In the final at-bat of the marathon game, Ortiz blooped a single into center field, allowing Damon to score the game-winning run. Bellhorn said of the win, “It gave us a huge mental boost, the way we won. Especially the first night, and then to do it again. Going into New York, the last two games we felt like the pressure was on them.”17

Game Six in Yankee Stadium, remembered as the “bloody sock game,” saw Curt Schilling gut it out on a surgically repaired ankle, giving up only one run in seven innings. Bellhorn provided the run support, smashing a three-run homer off Jon Lieber in the fourth inning, putting the Red Sox on top 4-0. While the hit was initially ruled a ground-rule double, once the umpires conferred, they gave the home run to Bellhorn when it was discovered that the ball had bounced off a fan’s hands in the left-field bleachers. “I thought it was probably going to be a double down the line and it ended up hitting off a fan’s chest – home run.”18 Once Schilling exited the game, the bullpen held the Yankees in check and led the Red Sox  to their third consecutive victory, 4-2, tying the Series at three games apiece.

In the winner-take-all Game Seven, the Red Sox came out swinging. Thanks to home runs by Damon, Ortiz, and Bellhorn, the Red Sox defeated the Yankees to advance to the World Series. Bellhorn’s home run came in the top of the eighth inning with Boston up 8-3. On a 1-and-1 count, he hammered a Tom Gordon offering off the fencing attached to the right-field foul pole for his second home run in as many nights and the third of his career at Yankee Stadium. “That might have been the first hit I ever got off Gordon,” Bellhorn said. “That was one of those swings where I swung and was like, ‘Oh!’ I was surprised how good I hit it. And it stayed fair and hit the pole.”19 The home run blunted any momentum the Yankees had built up for a comeback. Bellhorn said, “It was a huge momentum killer for the Yankees at the time. It pretty much silenced the crowd.” In response to the home run, many diehard Yankee fans left the Stadium with a feeling reminiscent of Sox fans’ hatred for Bucky Dent, cursing Bellhorn under their breath and, sometimes out loud. As diehard Red Sox fan Stuart O’Nan, who was in attendance that night, exclaimed, “From now until eternity Mark “F*cking” Bellhorn to Yankee fans.”20 As Bellhorn recalled, “Maybe I heard them do it a few times. … Definitely a memorable home run for me.”21

The Red Sox’ victory catapulted them to the World Series where they faced off against the St. Louis Cardinals. In Game One Bellhorn continued his clutch hitting, leading to what he believed was the most memorable moment of his career. In the Boston eighth with the score tied, 9-9, after the Red Sox blew leads of 4-0, 7-2, and 9-7, Bellhorn sent a Julian Tavarez offering careening off the right-field foul pole to give the Red Sox an 11-9 lead and eventually the win. After the game Bellhorn said, “I just wanted to make a good swing at the pitch.” New York Post columnist Mike Vaccaro put the home run in perspective, saying, “A good swing? What he made was a forever swing, a swing they will remember across New England for all time.”22 

In Game Two, Bellhorn was integral to the win for the Red Sox. In the fourth inning with two Red Sox on base, he doubled off the wall in center-field, scoring the two runners and extending the Red Sox lead to 4-1 as they won, 6-2. As Damon recalled, “Manny and David and myself, we weren’t too big a factor tonight. But that’s what’s great about our team. It can be someone different every night. … The offensive hero tonight: … Bellhorn.”23 Bellhorn’s heroics aside, it was also a game in which all the Red Sox runs were scored with two outs. Starter Curt Schilling became the first pitcher to win a World Series start with three different teams (Phillies, Diamondbacks, and Red Sox).24 Bellhorn appeared on a Sports Illustrated cover on November 1, in a shot that captured him leaping over the Cardinals’ Mike Matheny as Matheny slid into second base.

In Game Three, in St. Louis, Bellhorn again made a big impact. With men on second and third, Larry Walker came to the plate. Bellhorn, playing deeper than usual at second base, collected Walker’s groundball and threw it to Ortiz at first base for the easy out. Ortiz spotted Jeff Suppan frozen midway between third and home and gunned the ball to Bill Mueller for the tag at third base to end the inning. With that lead, Pedro Martínez continued pitching masterfully in his last appearance with the Red Sox and closer Keith Foulke secured the win. In a postgame interview, when asked if the Red Sox had been lucky over the last few games because of the number of errors they committed, Bellhorn said, “That’s the character of this team. Guys make mistakes and guys want to pick each other up.”

The Red Sox won Game Four and swept the Cardinals, ending the 86-year “curse” that had plagued the Red Sox organization and its fans. Bellhorn was a key piece of that championship run and his clutch hitting put them in a position to win in the biggest games of the ALCS and World Series. Richard Johnson echoed Bellhorn’s Game Three sentiments, saying, “It was a team where everybody contributed something. … This was a team where everybody found a way to pick it up and do something.”25 Bellhorn was precisely this type of player. He was not always consistent, but he was a clutch player when it mattered most.

In 2005 Bellhorn struggled offensively and his season was marred by injury. A sprained left thumb left him on the disabled list, making rehab starts at minor-league Pawtucket for 16 games. After his return he was released by Boston after refusing a minor-league assignment. He signed as a free agent with the Yankees on August 31. “It’s unfortunate for me what happened this year in Boston, but there are no hard feelings,” Bellhorn said.26 However, once the Yankees expressed their interest in him, Bellhorn seemed optimistic, saying, “I wanted to go to a team where I was wanted.”27 Bellhorn made three starts for the Yankees, and had one pinch-running appearance in the Division Series.

After the postseason Bellhorn declined a minor-league assignment and chose to become a free agent.28 He signed a one-year, $800,000 contract with the San Diego Padres, reuniting with former Red Sox teammates Alan Embree, Doug Mirabelli, Dave Roberts, and Scott Williamson.29 Bellhorn played in 115 games for San Diego in 2006, batting .190 and hitting 8 home runs in 253 at-bats.30

Arguably his greatest game for the Padres came on May 28, 2006, against the Cardinals. He hit a towering home run that traveled 438 feet into the bleachers. At the time it was the second longest home run ever hit in Petco Park, then three years old. He also led the team in pinch-hit at-bats that season with 38.31

A free agent again after the 2006 season, Bellhorn signed a minor-league contract with the Cincinnati Reds with an invitation to attend spring training. He played in 99 games for the Reds’ Louisville Triple-A affiliate, and in 13 August and September games for Cincinnati, going 1-for-14.

For 2008 Bellhorn was signed by the Los Angeles Dodgers to a minor-league contract ostensibly to play for the Triple-A Jacksonville Suns. However, Dodgers assistant GM DeJon Watson made clear that it was simply a minor-league signing with no intention of having Bellhorn fill a roster spot for Jacksonville or with the Dodgers. He was released on July 24.32 Bellhorn was picked up by the Colorado Rockies on a minor-league contract in February of 2009, and played that year for the Triple-A Colorado Springs Sky Sox. After the season he retired as a player.

Since then Bellhorn has led a quiet life. He married Lindsey Bopp in May of 2013. As of 2023 they lived in Scottsdale, Arizona, with their two children. Since 2015 he has coached Arizona club league baseball at various age levels from 12 years old to high school. An avid golfer, he won the Arizona Stroke Play Championship in 2014. He displayed his trademark clutch “hitting” when he sank the first putt of the playoff round.33 While many sources speculate that he owns multiple Dunkin Donuts franchises, he said, “No Dunkin Donuts franchises – I wish! Someone put that on my Wikipedia page 15 years ago and I have been asked about that multiple times.” 

Bellhorn’s younger brother, Todd, born in 1976 in Lakeland, Florida, pitched at the University of Central Florida and was drafted in the ninth round by the New York Mets in 1998. He pitched for the Pittsfield Mets and the Capital City Bombers from 1998 to 2000.

Asked to summarize his career, Bellhorn said, “My career was an awesome experience. I feel extremely blessed to achieve my childhood dream of playing professional baseball. I had many ups and downs, but they only made me better. I went from thinking I wasn’t going to have a job in 2003, while playing winter ball in Mexico, to being the starting second baseman of the World Series champion Boston Red Sox.

 “I got to play for a lot of storied franchises, the Red Sox, Cubs, and Yankees. I wish I could’ve been a little more consistent in the big leagues, but I’m thankful for the opportunities that I got.” 

Of the 2004 Red Sox, Bellhorn said, “Being on that team and just experiencing the whole year with that group of guys – we had a lot of fun and we topped it off by winning the World Series. I especially loved those Red Sox vs. Yankees series It was like a college football rivalry game every time we played.” Beyond the Red Sox, he said, “I enjoyed most all of the teams I played on (minors and majors). I just loved playing baseball and doing it for a job was icing on the cake for me.”

“I’m sure most people will remember me for 2004 with the Red Sox, but I guess I just want to be remembered as someone who always hustled and played hard. Someone who always worked hard and was a great teammate.”

Sources

In addition to the sources cited in the Notes, the author consulted Baseball-Reference, Retrosheet, Baseball Almanac, Stats Crew, and the Mark Bellhorn player file at the National Baseball Hall of Fame.

Thanks to Mark Bellhorn, the Boston Red Sox organization, Sarah Coffin of the Red Sox front office, and Rachel Wells and Roger Lansing at the National Baseball Hall of Fame, as well as Greg Fowler, Joe Johnston, and Holly Scheller for their support.

Notes

1 MLB Network #WeKnowPostseason: Mark Bellhorn in 2004 interview with Kevin Millar. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44aWktxxTH0, accessed June 21, 2022.

2 Jackie MacMullan, “Bellwether,” Boston Globe, Believe It!! (Chicago: Triumph, 2004), 16. 

3 He began his career in small-animal practice in Lakeland, Florida. Dr. Bellhorn owned Seminole Veterinary Hospital in Sanford, Florida. In his later life he taught at the University of Tennessee, eventually moving on to become an associate clinical professor in the College of Veterinary Medicine at his alma mater, Auburn University. 

4 Mark Bellhorn, email interview with author, June 16, 2023. Unless indicated, all otherwise unattributed quotations from Bellhorn come from this interview.

5 “Spiezio Expected Back in Lineup This Week,” Santa Cruz (California) Sentinel, June 23, 1997: 16.

6 Bob Ryan, “Law of Averages Doesn’t Apply Here,” Boston Globe, April 28, 2004.

http://archive.boston.com/sports/baseball/redsox/articles/2004/04/28/law_of_averages_doesnt_apply_here/,  accessed July 12, 2022.

7 He hit just .135, and his OBP was but .210.

8 “Bellhorn Belts One from Both Sides: Becomes First NL Player to Do So in One Inning,” Santa Cruz Sentinel, August 30, 2002: D-3. The Cubs scored 10 runs in the fourth inning and won the game 13-10.

9 Bruce Miles, “Mueller, Bellhorn Find Fame, Fortune with the Red Sox,” Chicago Daily Herald, June 13, 2005.

10 Associated Press, “Rockies Swap Hernandez to Chicago,” Hays (Kansas) Daily News, June 20, 2003.

11 He was acquired for $125,000. Though a number of reports mentioned a player to be named later, there was none. Email correspondence from Boston Red Sox, September 13, 2022.

12 Michael Silverman, “Who’s on Second? Mark Bellhorn Says He’s a Candidate,” Boston Herald, December 16, 2023. https://www.milforddailynews.com/story/sports/2003/12/17/who-s-on-second-mark/41302268007/, accessed June 16, 2023.

13 Bob Ryan, “Law of Averages Doesn’t Apply Here.”

http://archive.boston.com/sports/baseball/redsox/articles/2004/04/28/law_of_averages_doesnt_apply_here/,  accessed July 12, 2022.

14 Allan Wood and Bill Nowlin, Don’t Let Us Win Tonight (Chicago: Triumph Books, 2014), 59.

15 Wood and Nowlin, 59.

16 Saul Wisnia, Miracle at Fenway: The Inside Story of the Boston Red Sox 2004 Championship Season (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2014), 240.

17 Wood and Nowlin, 154.

18 Wood and Nowlin, 167.

19 Wood and Nowlin, 197.

20 Stewart O’Nan and Stephen King, Faithful: Two Diehard Boston Red Sox Fans Chronicle the Historic 2004 Season (New York: Scribner, 2004), 376.

21 Mark Bellhorn, email interview, June 16, 2023.

22 Mike Vaccaro, “Last Week’s Goat Is Fenway’s Darling,” New York Post, October 24, 2004. https://nypost.com/2004/10/24/last-weeks-goat-is-fenways-darling/, accessed March 18, 2023.

23 Wood and Nowlin, 241.

24 Wood and Nowlin, 240-242.

25 Wisnia, 278.

26 Jim Cour, “Bellhorn Gets a Yankee Start: Infielder Switches Sides in New York-Boston Rivalry,” Albany (New York) Times Union, August 31, 2005.

27 Cour.

28 “Transactions,” New York Times, October 18, 2005.

29 “Baseball Notes: Dodgers Give Tomko $8.7 Mil,” Syracuse Post-Standard, December 23, 2005.

30 “Reds Deal for Another Pitcher,” Cincinnati Post, January 24, 2007.

31“Bellhorn Hits Longest HR in Petco History in Win Over Cards,” ESPN.com, https://www.espn.co.uk/story/2461613/pep-guardiola-bastian-schweinsteiger-must-decide-on-future, accessed March 18, 2023.

32 Tony Jackson, “Dodgers Sign Mark Bellhorn to Minor-League Deal,” Los Angeles Daily News, May 16, 2008.  http://www.insidesocal.com/dodgers/2008/05/16/dodgers-sign-ma/, accessed March 18, 2023.

33 “Arizona Stroke Play: Former MLB Star Bellhorn Wins It,” amateurgolf.com, April 19, 2014. https://www.amateurgolf.com/12101-GolfNews-Ariz-Stroke-Play-Former-MLB-star-Bellhorn-wins-it, accessed June 16, 2023.