Park Jin-man (born November 30, 1976) is a retired South Korean

baseball Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each, taking turns batting and fielding. The game occurs over the course of several plays, with each play generally beginning when a player on the fielding tea ...

shortstop Shortstop, abbreviated SS, is the baseball or softball fielding position between second and third base, which is considered to be among the most demanding defensive positions. Historically the position was assigned to defensive specialists who ...

. He batted and threw right-handed. He won the

KBO League Golden Glove Award The KBO League Golden Glove Award is an award given out annually by the Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) to the best overall player at each position in the KBO League. It is also commonly known as the KBO Golden Gloves. The award was established i ...

five times, and was also the 2006

Korean Series The Korean Series is the final championship series of the KBO League. It has been held since the KBO League's first season in and is the final series of the post-season play-offs. From to 2013, the winner of the Korean Series went on to play in ...

MVP. He competed for the

South Korea national baseball team The South Korean national baseball team ( ko, 대한민국 야구 국가대표팀) is the national baseball team of South Korea. It won the Baseball World Cup in 1982, and participated in the Summer Olympic Games of 1984, 1988, 1996, and 2000. At ...

at the

2000 Summer Olympics The 2000 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXVII Olympiad and also known as Sydney 2000 (Dharug: ''Gadigal 2000''), the Millennium Olympic Games or the Games of the New Millennium, was an international multi-sport event held from 1 ...

, where they won the bronze medal. He was also a member of the team that won the gold medal at the

2008 Olympic Games The 2008 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXIX Olympiad () and also known as Beijing 2008 (), were an international multisport event held from 8 to 24 August 2008, in Beijing, China. A total of 10,942 athletes from 204 Na ...

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1976 births Living people Sportspeople from Incheon 2006 World Baseball Classic players Asian Games medalists in baseball Baseball players at the 2000 Summer Olympics Baseball players at the 2002 Asian Games Baseball players at the 2006 Asian Games Baseball players at the 2008 Summer Olympics Hyundai Unicorns players KBO League third basemen KBO League shortstops Korean Series MVPs Medalists at the 2008 Summer Olympics Olympic baseball players of South Korea Olympic bronze medalists for South Korea Olympic gold medalists for South Korea Olympic medalists in baseball Samsung Lions players SSG Landers players South Korean baseball players South Korean Roman Catholics Asian Games gold medalists for South Korea Asian Games bronze medalists for South Korea Medalists at the 2002 Asian Games Medalists at the 2006 Asian Games {{SouthKorea-baseball-shortstop-stub Medalists at the 2000 Summer Olympics