About Travis Buck
Travis George Buck is an American baseball coach and former professional outfielder, who is currently an assistant for the University of Oregon. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Oakland Athletics, Cleveland Indians and Houston Astros, and was an assistant coach for Loyola Marymount University. He was in the Opening Day lineup for Oakland due to an injury to first baseman Dan Johnson, which prompted manager Bob Geren to shift Nick Swisher to first base and tab Buck as the starting right fielder. Buck went 1-3 in the game, with his first major league hit being a double off Mariners starting pitcher Félix Hernández. He won the Pac-10 Player-of-the-week award in consecutive weeks in 2004, a feat that was not repeated by a Sun Devil until Ike Davis in 2007.
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