Kelvin Orlando Moore (September 26, 1957 – November 9, 2014) was a

Major League Baseball Major League Baseball (MLB) is a professional baseball organization and the oldest major professional sports league in the world. MLB is composed of 30 total teams, divided equally between the National League (NL) and the American League (AL), ...

first baseman. He played parts of three seasons in the major leagues, from until , for the

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. He attended

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and

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, where he was drafted in the sixth round of the

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. He died on November 9, 2014.

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