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American baseball player (born 1957)

Clinton Daniel Gladden III (born July 7, 1957) is an American former Major League Baseball player and current radio broadcaster. He was the starting left fielder with the Minnesota Twins' two World Series Championship teams in 1987 and 1991.

Known as "The Dazzle Man", he attended California State University, Fresno and was signed by the San Francisco Giants as an amateur free agent in 1979. He made his debut with the Giants in 1983, and in 1984 he batted .351 with 31 stolen bases as the Giants' center fielder. In the intense and memorable Game 7 of the 1991 Series, Gladden stretched a broken bat bloop hit into a double before scoring the winning run on Gene Larkin's single off of Atlanta's Alejandro Peña, in the bottom of the 10th inning. After the 1991 season, Gladden signed as a free agent with the Detroit Tigers, and played with them until 1993. He spent 1994 in Japan playing for the Yomiuri Giants, winning a Japan Series championship. Because of the 1994–95 MLBPA strike, Gladden's championship with the kyojin is regarded by some fans as a world championship, and he retired from the game as a player on top as a three time world champion with the distinction of having won championships in two continents (as does teammate Hideki Matsui, who won the World Series in 2009 with the New York Yankees). He returned to the Twins as a scout (spring training, 1995), then the Colorado Rockies (advance, 1996–1998) and spent 1999 as a roving instructor for the San Francisco Giants. Gladden met his wife, Janice Murphy, while they were both attending De Anza College and they were married on July 7, 1979. Janice's father played Negro league baseball. They had two daughters together, one of whom married and had a child with Gary Gaetti's son. Gladden settled with his wife in Eden Prairie, Minnesota.