David wright bio biography

American baseball player (born 1982)

For other uses, see David Wright (disambiguation).

Baseball player

David Allen Wright (born December 20, 1982) is an American former professional baseballthird baseman who spent his entire 14-year Major League Baseball (MLB) career with the New York Mets. Chosen by the Mets in the 2001 MLB draft, he made his MLB debut on July 21, 2004 at Shea Stadium. Wright was nicknamed "Captain America" after his performance in the 2013 World Baseball Classic where he led the tournament with 10 RBI and a .438 batting average.

Wright is a seven-time All-Star, a two-time Gold Glove Award winner, a two-time Silver Slugger Award winner, and a member of the 30–30 club. One of the most beloved players in franchise history, Wright is the Mets' all time leader in career plate appearances and holds many other franchise records for position players. He was named captain of the Mets in 2013, becoming the fourth captain in the team's history. Wright is the third player to play in at least 10 MLB seasons and play his entire MLB career with the Mets.

Throughout the latter half of Wright's career, he was plagued by injuries, most notably spinal stenosis, as well as additional ailments in his neck and shoulder. After missing significant time from 2015 to 2018 and receiving word from doctors that his spinal stenosis would not improve, Wright announced that 2018 would be his final season as an active player. Wright finished his major league career with a .296 career batting average, 242 home runs, and

Began quarterly Youtube live streamed events ‘Beyond the Airwaves’ (April 2022-present).

Released 'Returning Tides Vol 2'(2022).

Continued collaborations with Carys with highly acclaimed ‘Oracle’(2023) plus UK mini tour.

Callisto release 4th album ‘Either Side of Reality’(2023) premiered at inaugural DIODE festival.

Headlined E-Live Festival in Netherlands (2024).

Acclaimed album 'Fade' (2024) released and Grammy © nominated in 2 categories; Best Album and Best New Age/Ambient album.

Also nominated in International Libera Awards and World Entertainment Awards (best album Fade and best song Elemmírë).

Code Indigo compilation 'Endgame' to be released (2025).

Collaboration with award winning flutist Sherry Finzer (2025).

Numerous solo and Code Indigo concerts planned (2025).

American writer

David Wright is an American writer.

Early life and education

Wright grew up in Borger, Texas. His mother is a white Jewish woman who survived the Nazi occupation of Paris. Her parents were affluent, assimilated French Jews. His mother was a member of the French Communist Party; she immigrated to the US in the 1950s as the GI bride of an African-American soldier. He holds a BA from Carleton College and an MFA from the MFA Program for Poets & Writers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He also studied at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales. Before he started teaching creative writing, he was a player/coach on various American football teams in Paris and London. He teaches at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, but lives in Texas.

He has also published under the name "David Wright Faladé," in honor of his biological father, Max Faladé, from Porto-Novo in Benin, the grandson of Béhanzin, the last King of Dahomey.

Works

Books

Short stories

Documentary film

• Rescue Men: The Story of the Pea Island Lifesavers (2010).

Television journalism

• "The Pea Island Story", co-written and co-produced with Stephanie Frederic and David Zoby. Aired on BET Tonight, February 1999.

Awards

• 2017: International Board on Books for Young People, grades 9–12, Away Running
• 2011: Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil.
• 2009: North Carolina Humanities Council, Large Grant, for production of Rescue Men: The Story of the Pea Island Lifesavers.
• 2005: Dobie-Paisano Fellowship, University of Texas and the Texas Institute of Letters.
• 2004: Tennessee Williams Scholar, Sewanee Writers’ Conference.
• 1999: National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Institute for C