Professional Baseball Career
In a 15-year career, Clark hit .262 with 251 home runs and 824 RBIs in 1,559 games.
He was third in Rookie of the Year voting in 1996, when he hit .250 with 27 home runs.
His most productive seasons were 1997, with 32 homers and 117 RBIs (though he made 10 errors at first base), 1998, with 34 homers and 103 RBIs (though he made 13 errors at first), and 1999, with 31 home runs and 99 RBIs (though he made 10 errors at first).
Clark was selected an All-Star in 2001.
In 2002, Clark hit only .207 with 29 RBIs and three home runs for Boston in 90 games, with a career-low .291 slugging percentage. In 2003 he batted .232 for the New York Mets.
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