Jacob Jeffery Bronkey (born September 18, 1965) is a former

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who pitched with the Texas Rangers and

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. He attended

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and became Player of the Year and won a state championship in 1983. He was drafted by the

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in 1983, but instead attended

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. He was drafted by the

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organization in 1986. After his career, he pursued a college degree in psychology and his daughter is a softball player at the

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. He is the only Major League player born in Afghanistan. He was born in

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to an American mother and Afghan father.

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