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Casey Bond (born October 5, 1984) is an American actor, film producer and retired professional baseball player. He is most noted for playing Chad Bradford in the 2011 film ''Moneyball''. Before becoming an actor, Bond played as an outfielder for the MLB team San Francisco Giants. Bond attended Birmingham–Southern College and Lipscomb University, playing college baseball for both schools, before he was drafted by the Giants in 2007. After playing in minor league baseball for two seasons, the Giants released Bond in 2009. Rather than continue to pursue his baseball career, Bond chose to become an actor. In addition to ''Moneyball'', Bond has appeared in ''Nashville'', Ring the Bell, Undrafted, My Many Sons, ''I Saw the Light'', ''Gene Simmons Family Jewels'' and various other films and commercials. ==Baseball career== Bond was raised in Peachtree City, Georgia. He attended Starr's Mill High School in Fayetteville, Georgia.〔(CSTV.com: #1 in College Sports )〕 He then enrolled at Birmingham–Southern College in Birmingham, Alabama, where he played college baseball for the Birmingham–Southern Panthers baseball team, competing in the Big South Conference in the National Collegiate Athletic Association's (NCAA) Division I. After his junior year at Birmingham-Southern, the school's president decided to move the Panthers' athletic programs from Division I to Division III, which required the team to take a hiatus for a season. This ultimately ended the baseball program at Birmingham-Southern as most players left to find a new program where they would be able to continue their college careers.〔 Bond transferred to Lipscomb University in Nashville, Tennessee, where he continued his college baseball career with the Lipscomb Bisons baseball team, competing in the Atlantic Sun Conference in NCAA's Division I. In his senior year, Bond started all 58 games on the Bisons' schedule and finished the season with a .326 batting average.〔 He registered the tenth-most hits and third-most stolen bases in Lipscomb history for a single-season.〔 The San Francisco Giants drafted Bond as a center fielder in the 25th round of the 2007 Major League Baseball Draft. They had intended to draft Bond in the 24th round, but instead selected Brock Bond, a second baseman from the University of Missouri, due to a clerical error. Bond played in the Giants' minor league system for two seasons. He debuted in professional baseball for the Arizona Giants of the Rookie-level Arizona League in 2007. Bond played for the Salem-Keizer Volcanoes of the Class A-Short Season Northwest League in 2008, where he had a .246 batting average and 15 stolen bases in 68 games played. He was called up to the Fresno Grizzlies of the Class AAA Pacific Coast League for at the end of the 2008 season. The Giants released Bond prior to spring training in 2009.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Casey Bond」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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