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He graduated from Newnan High School in Newnan, and went on to attend Enterprise State Junior College.
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Jerome Walton
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He batted and threw right-handed. Walton was drafted in the second round (36th overall) of the 1986 Major League Baseball draft by the Chicago Cubs. Walton made his major league debut on April 4, 1989 as a Chicago Cub.
In a 10-year major league career, Walton compiled a.269 batting average with 25 home runs, 132 runs batted in and 58 stolen bases, mostly in a reserve role.
While early in his Cub career, Walton"s fans used a "Jerome-O-Meter" to track his batting average. The gimmick was a spin-off of the "Shawon-O-Meter," used during Walton"s rookie season of 1989 to track the average of Cubs shortstop Shawon Dunston.
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1992 (aged 26) -
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United States