# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ben-mcdonald
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:17:00.063Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ben-mcdonald"
name: "Ben McDonald"
slug: "ben-mcdonald"
description: "Larry Benard McDonald is an American former Major League Baseball (MLB) pitcher. The first overall pick in the 1989 MLB draft, he played for the Baltimore Orioles and Milwaukee Brewers from 1989 through 1997."
tagline: "American baseball player"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ben_McDonald.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Basketball Players"
  slug: "basketball-players"
profileType:
  name: "Basketball Player"
  slug: "basketball-player"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3665646"
birthDate: "1967-11-24"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.82
  momentum:             6.511746971888206
  historical:           5.045052
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 245
sources:
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%86_%D9%85%D9%83%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AF"
    title: "بين مكدونالد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%86_%D9%85%D9%83%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AF"
    title: "بين مكدونالد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_McDonald"
    title: "Ben McDonald"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%86_%D9%85%DA%A9%E2%80%8C%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AF"
    title: "بن مک‌دونالد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%99%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9E%E3%82%AF%E3%83%89%E3%83%8A%E3%83%AB%E3%83%89"
    title: "ベン・マクドナルド"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4886146"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump