Early Life
Stanton attended Verdugo Hills High School in Tujunga, California before he left and went to Notre Dame High School (Sherman Oaks) in Los Angeles. He was a three-sport athlete there; he had accepted a scholarship to play baseball for USC, and was receiving offers from UCLA and UNLV to play football. However, he opted to go pro after being drafted in the second round (76th overall) in the 2007 amateur draft by the Florida Marlins. r\ Stanton is of Irish, African-American, and Puerto Rican descent. He will play for Team USA nationally He is of Puerto Rican heritage on his mother's side and looks up to Iván Rodríguez and Roberto Clemente as his favorite baseball players. To celebrate this, the Marlins gave a Giancarlo Stanton Bobblehead figure to the first 15,000 fans to arrive to the stadium on August 29, 2012, which is Puerto Rican Heritage Night. He also belongs to the Criollos de Caguas in the Puerto Rico Baseball League.
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