Mark Dewey, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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American baseball player
Date of Birth: 03-Jan-1965
Place of Birth: Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States
Profession: baseball player
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Capricorn 
About Mark Dewey
- Mark Alan Dewey (born January 3, 1965 in Grand Rapids, Michigan) is a former Major League Baseball player.
- He is currently a pitching coach for the Brevard County Manatees, located in Viera, Florida.
- The Manatees are the Class A-Advanced (High-A) Minor League Baseball affiliate of the Milwaukee Brewers.
- His prior coaching experience was with the Washington Wild Things, an independent professional baseball team in the Frontier League, and at Emory & Henry College in southwestern Virginia.
- Born in Grand Rapids, Dewey played for the Grand Valley State University Lakers.
- In 1987, he struck out 87 batters in 97.2 innings.
- He was a 6'0" right-handed relief pitcher who played six season in the major leagues with the San Francisco Giants (1990, 1995–96), New York Mets (1992), and Pittsburgh Pirates (1993–94).
- On June 2, 1987, Dewey was drafted by the Giants in the 23rd round of the 1987 amateur draft.
- He appeared in 205 major league games and had a lifetime record of 12–7 (.632 winning percentage) with 168 strikeouts, 70 games finished and 8 saves.
- His lifetime earned run average was 3.65 for an Adjusted ERA+ of 110.
- His best season was 1993 when he had 7 saves for the Pirates in 21 games and maintained an impressive 2.36 ERA for an Adjusted ERA+ of 171.
- In his final season, Dewey appeared in 78 games for the Giants—3rd most in the National League.
- Dewey earned $225,000 in his final season in the big leagues.
- In 1995, Dewey was inducted into the Grand Valley State University Athletic Hall of Fame.Dewey was involved in a notable controversy on July 28, 1996, when he refused to participate with his teammates in a pregame ceremony intended to support research of a cure for AIDS.
- As part of "Until There's A Cure Day", members of the Giants wore AIDS awareness ribbons on their uniforms and stood in a group shaped like that symbol during speeches by Giants owner Peter Magowan and San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown.
- Dewey refused to take the field for the ceremony, and he wore his ribbon sideways (which would have resembled the Jesus fish symbol).
- He cited religious reasons for his refusal, complaining that the ceremony was "against [his] Christian principles" and voicing the belief that homosexuality is a sin.
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