Rafael Palmeiro To Play For Sugar Land Skeeters Alongside Son
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SUGAR LAND (AP) - Rafael Palmeiro has signed with the Sugar Land Skeeters of the independent Atlantic League and plans to play alongside his son Patrick for the remainder of this season.
The 50-year-old Palmeiro was a four-time All-Star who played for the Chicago Cubs (1986-88), Texas Rangers (1989-93, 1999-03) and Baltimore (1994-98, 2004-05). He hit .288 with 569 homers and 1,835 RBIs, but his career was tarnished by a 10-day suspension in 2005 for a positive steroids test -- after he testified at a congressional hearing that he had never taken the performance-enhancing drugs.
Palmeiro never received more than 12.6 percent of the vote for the Hall of Fame ballot and was dropped after the 2014 vote, when he fell below 5 percent.
Patrick Palmeiro, 25, signed with the Chicago White Sox organization in June 2012 and was released last October. He set a team-record RBIs for the second time in three days, driving in six runs Thursday night in the Skeeters' 15-5 home victory over Camden. Palmeiro had five RBIs on Tuesday night against Camden.
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