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John Derran Lackey is a major league baseball pitcher from Abilene, Texas. He has played for the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim his entire career and wears jersey number 41. He played American football, baseball and basketball at Abilene High School, winning all-district first team honors. He played one season of baseball at University of Texas at Arlington before joining the Angels in 2002.

Lackey forever became a hero to all Anaheim Angels fans on October 27, 2002, when the rookie was the winning pitcher in of the Angels' 2002 World Series Championship. Lackey allowed only one earned run on four hits while striking out four in five innings, allowing the Angels to hold an early lead to hand over to their dominant bullpen trio of Brendan Donnelly, Francisco Rodriguez, and Troy Percival to seal their World Series title.

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