Elliott Maddox
American baseball player
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Elliott Maddox is an American former Major League Baseball player. In , he was drafted by the Detroit Tigers in the first round of the draft . He made his MLB debut in 1970. Early years Maddox was born in East Orange, New Jersey and grew up in Vauxhall, New Jersey. He graduated from Union High School in Union County, New Jersey. As a senior, he was selected by the Houston Astros in the fourth round of the 1966 Major League Baseball draft, but chose to attend the University of Michigan, instead. As a sophomore in , he won the Big Ten batting title with a .467 batting average. In June , he was drafted by the Detroit Tigers in the first round of the draft . He converted to Judaism in the 1970s. Maddox studied under a Conservative rabbi for his conversion, but later identified as a Reform Jew. He was married under a chuppah and his son had a bris.
