Lee Seung Yeob (1976)

Other Name: 이승엽 李承燁 Lee Seung Yeop Lee Seung Yuob Lee Seung Yuop

Age: 48

Birthday: October, 11, 1976

Nationality: Daegu, South Korea

Height: 183 CM

Zodiac sign: Libra

Lee Seung Yuop is a South Korean retired baseball player, who spent most of his career with the Samsung Lions of the KBO League. At the age of 26, he became the youngest professional baseball player in the world to hit 300 home runs. He formerly held the Asian home run record of 56 homers in a season, established in 2003 while playing for Samsung in the KBO.

He played with the Lions for 9 years before moving to Japan and played for the Chiba Lotte Marines (2004–2005), the Yomiuri Giants (2006–2010), and the Orix Buffaloes (2011). He returned to South Korea in 2012 and played for 5 more seasons with the Samsung Lions before retiring in 2017 at the age of 41.

He was part of the South Korean national team and won a bronze medal at the 2000 Sydney Olympics and a gold medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

(Source: Wikipedia)