Albert Hall (born March 7, 1958) is an American former

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who played the majority of his Major League career for the

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. Hall appeared in a total of 375

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in the

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between 1981 and 1989; 355 of those games were as a member of the Braves. He added twenty games to his MLB résumé at the end of his career with the

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Career

Hall was a

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who threw

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; he stood tall and weighed . He was selected by the Braves in the sixth round of the

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out of Birmingham's Jones Valley High School. After spending his first two professional seasons in Rookie ball, Hall quickly developed a reputation as a prolific base stealer in minor league baseball. In successive seasons, he stole 66 (1979), 100 (1980), 60 (1981) and 62 (1982) bases at progressively higher levels of the Braves'

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. Then, in 1986, he stole 72 bases for the Triple-A

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. Hall spent only two full seasons, and , in Major League Baseball. His finest big league season was 1987, when he set MLB-career highs in games played (92),

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(54),

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(83), doubles (20), triples (4),

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(three),

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(24), stolen bases (33), and

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.284. On September 23, he became the first Atlanta Brave to

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, becoming the first player in franchise history to do so since Bill Collins in 1910. During his MLB career, Hall stole 67 bases and was

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29 times (.698). In the minors, he had 455 thefts in 566 attempts (.803).

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