# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ron-gardenhire
# Generated: 2026-08-14T17:59:23.462Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ron-gardenhire"
name: "Ron Gardenhire"
slug: "ron-gardenhire"
description: "Ronald Clyde Gardenhire is an American former professional baseball player, coach, and manager. He played as a shortstop in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the New York Mets from 1981 to 1985. After another year playing in the minor leagues, he served as a manager in the Minnesota Twins farm system for three years, then as a coach for the Twins from 1991 to 2001, and then as the manager from 2002 to 2014, winning the American League Manager of the Year Award in 2010. He then coached for the Arizona Diamondbacks in 2017 and managed the Detroit Tigers from 2018 through most of 2020, when he retired from baseball."
tagline: "American baseball player and manager"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ron_Gardenhire_2006.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
birthDate: "1957-10-24"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           45.95
  momentum:             0.7692307692307692
  historical:           5.532294666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Ron Gardenhire"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%AC%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%87%D9%8A%D8%B1"
    title: "رون جاردينهير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Gardenhire"
    title: "Ron Gardenhire"
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  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Gardenhire"
    title: "Ron Gardenhire"
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    title: "ロン・ガーデンハイアー"
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  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Gardenhire"
    title: "Ron Gardenhire"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3441393"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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