Keith Hernandez is a former Major League Baseball first baseman of Spanish and part Scots-Irish descent, who played for the St. Louis Cardinals , New York Mets , and Cleveland Indians . He batted and threw left-handed, and through most of his career was listed as being 6 feet tall and 195 pounds.

Hernandez was a star athlete at Terra Nova High School before transferring to Capuchino High School, from which he graduated. He went on to the College of San Mateo .