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Greg Jelks
Gregory Dion Jelks (born August 16, 1961), is a former American Australian baseballer who played with the Philadelphia Phillies. He spent the majority of his career in the minor leagues, and is most notable playing with the Australia national baseball team and the Perth Heat in the Australian Baseball League.〔(Flintoff and Dunn - Greg Jelks )〕
==Professional career==
Born in Centre, Alabama, Jelks was signed as a non-drafted free agent by the Phillies organisation in . The following summer Jelks made his debut with the Bend Phillies of the Northwest League. The following year, Jelks hit 24 home runs and 75 RBI for the Spartanburg Spinners in A class ball of the South Atlantic League. In Jelks appeared in 123 AAA games for the Maine Guides and that summer, Jelks was promoted to Philadelphia for 10 games, where out of eleven at bats he only collect one hit, a double off Montreal Expos pitcher Neal Heaton. Jelks became a free agent again in and was signed by the St Louis Cardinals played for the Louisville Redbirds. Over the course of eight minor league seasons, Greg Jelks totaled 771 games, 96 home runs, 361 RBI, and a career batting average of .245.〔(Greg Jelks ) on Baseball Reference〕
During the 1990s, he played professionally in Italy and Australia. In , he started his ABL career with the Perth Heat and Jelks enjoyed Australia, and decided to live in Perth, where he earned dual citizenship. Apart from a short stint with the Melbourne Reds in 1996, Jelks continued to play for the Heat throughout the ABL, as well as with West Australia for the International Baseball League of Australia.〔
He then played with the Australian national team from to . In the 1997 Intercontinental Cup, Greg batted an impressive .471/.538/1.088 to help Australia win a bronze medal for the first time ever in a global event. He was second in average in the event behind Paul Gonzalez and tied Orestes Kindelán for the home run lead. He was named on the All-Star team of the cup at designated hitter. The following year at the 1998 Baseball World Cup, he hit .278 as the starting left fielder for Australia and helped Australia to silver at the Haarlem Baseball Week. Jelks went on to play in the 1999 Intercontinental Cup and 2000 Sydney Olympics.
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