Wally Joyner
Wally Joyner (born June 16, 1962 in Atlanta, Georgia) is a former first baseman in Major League Baseball. He attended college at Brigham Young University and played for five different major league teams in his career: the California Angels, Kansas City Royals, San Diego Padres, Atlanta Braves and Anaheim Angels. He now resides in Mapleton, Utah. Joyner has invested and appeared in movies marketed to members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon church).
While playing for the California Angels, Wally earned the tag of "fan favorite", and brought some attention to a team whose prior claims to fame included proximity to Disneyland, and trading away future Hall of Famer Nolan Ryan. Wally briefly inspired a craze called "Wallyworld", a term describing the Anaheim park, drawn from references to Disneyland and the film National Lampoon's Vacation.
In November of 2005 for an interview with ESPN The Magazine, Joyner admitted to using steroids given to him by the late Ken Caminiti while they were both with the 1998 Padres.
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- Career statistics and player information from Baseball Reference
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