CalendarZ

  1. Home
  2. On This Day
  3. April
  4. 20
  5. Brandon Belt

Births on April 20

Brandon Belt
1988Apr, 20

Brandon Belt

Brandon Belt, American baseball player
Brandon Kyle Belt (born April 20, 1988), nicknamed "Baby Giraffe" and "Sparky", is an American professional baseball first baseman for the San Francisco Giants of Major League Baseball (MLB). He played college baseball for San Jacinto College and the University of Texas at Austin. The Giants selected Belt in the fifth round of the 2009 Major League Baseball draft. He made his MLB debut during the 2011 season. Belt stands 6 feet 3 inches (191 cm) tall and weighs 231 pounds (105 kg). He was a member of the 2012 World Series and 2014 World Series championship teams with the Giants, and a 2016 All Star. Belt has also played left field and right field for the Giants.

References

Choose Another Date

Events on 1988

  • 14Apr

    Soviet Union

    In a United Nations ceremony in Geneva, Switzerland, the Soviet Union signs an agreement pledging to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan.
  • 29May

    Ronald Reagan

    The U.S. President Ronald Reagan begins his first visit to the Soviet Union when he arrives in Moscow for a superpower summit with the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.
  • 15Nov

    State of Palestine

    Israeli-Palestinian conflict: An independent State of Palestine is proclaimed by the Palestinian National Council.
  • 16Nov

    Benazir Bhutto

    In the first open election in more than a decade, voters in Pakistan elect populist candidate Benazir Bhutto to be Prime Minister of Pakistan.
  • 19Nov

    Slobodan Milošević

    Serbian communist representative and future Serbian and Yugoslav president Slobodan Milošević publicly declares that Serbia is under attack from Albanian separatists in Kosovo as well as internal treachery within Yugoslavia and a foreign conspiracy to destroy Serbia and Yugoslavia.