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Moving from Category:People from Live Oak, Florida to Category:Sportspeople from Live Oak, Florida using Cat-a-lot

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{{short description|American baseball player (born 1972)}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2024}}
{{Infobox baseball biography
| name = Chan Perry
| image = 
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| caption =
| position = [[First baseman]]
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1972|9|13}}
| birth_place = [[Live Oak, Florida]], U.S.
| death_date =
| death_place =
| bats = Right
| throws = Right
| debutleague = MLB
| debutdate = August 5
| debutyear = 2000
| debutteam = Cleveland Indians
| finalleague = MLB
| finaldate = August 11
| finalyear = 2002
| finalteam = Kansas City Royals
| statleague = MLB
| stat1label = [[Batting average (baseball)|Batting average]]
| stat1value = .080
| stat2label = [[Home run]]s
| stat2value = 0
| stat3label = [[Run batted in|Runs batted in]]
| stat3value = 3
| awards =
| teams =
* [[Cleveland Indians]] ({{By|2000}})
* [[Kansas City Royals]] ({{By|2002}})
}}

'''Chan Everett Perry''' (born September 13, 1972) is a former American college and professional baseball player who was a utility [[infielder]] and [[outfielder]] in [[Major League Baseball]] (MLB) for parts of two seasons during the early 2000s. He played [[college baseball]] at [[Santa Fe College|Santa Fe Junior College]] (1991, 1992) and then the [[University of Florida]] (1993, 1994), and played professionally for the [[Cleveland Indians]] in {{By|2000}} and [[Kansas City Royals]] in {{By|2002}}.

Perry was born in [[Live Oak, Florida]]. He attended Lafayette High School in [[Mayo, Florida]], and played for the Lafayette Hornets high school baseball team.

Perry accepted and [[athletic scholarship]] to attend the University of Florida, where he played for coach [[Joe Arnold]]'s [[Florida Gators baseball]] team in 1993 and 1994. During the 1994 season, he had a batting average of .311, and led the team with seventeen doubles, fifteen home runs, sixty-five run batted in, and a .984 fielding percentage. The Gators posted a 3–2 record in the [[1994 NCAA Division I baseball tournament]], ultimately losing to the top-seeded [[Miami Hurricanes baseball|Miami Hurricanes]] 10–6 in the final of the Atlantic I Regional.

The Cleveland Indians selected Perry in the forty-fourth round of the 1994 Amateur Draft. He had two brief stints as an MLB player. He played in thirteen games in a variety of infielder and outfielder roles for the Indians in 2000, with fourteen at-bats and one hit, one run, and a batting average of .071. During the 2002 season, he appeared in five games as the first baseman for the Kansas City Royals with eleven at-bats, one hit, three runs batted in, and a batting average of .091. Perry finished his professional career with two minor league teams in the [[Pittsburgh Pirates]] organization in 2003.

Perry is the younger brother of former MLB third baseman [[Herbert Perry]].

== See also ==

{{Portal|Baseball|Biography}}
* [[Florida Gators]]
* [[List of Florida Gators baseball players]]

== External links ==
{{Baseballstats|br=p/perrych01|brm=perry-001cha}}
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20070929133857/http://thebaseballcube.com/players/P/Chan-Perry.shtml Baseballcube.com profile]
*[https://www.baseball-reference.com/p/perrych01.shtml Baseball-reference.com profile]

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