<P> The Yankees selected Judge in the first round of the 2013 MLB draft . After making his MLB debut in 2016 and hitting a home run in his first career at bat, Judge has had a record - breaking rookie year in 2017 . He was named an All - Star and won the Home Run Derby . He broke the Yankees' record for home runs by a rookie (besting Joe DiMaggio's 29 with 30 before the All - Star break), while also breaking the MLB rookie record of reaching base 164 times before the All - Star break . He won the American League's (AL) Rookie of the Month Awards for April, May, and June 2017, as well as the AL's Player of the Month Award in June . Judge set a new MLB rookie record for home runs, surpassing Mark McGwire's total of 49 . </P> <P> Judge was born and raised in Linden, California and was adopted the day after he was born by Patty and Wayne Judge, who both worked as teachers . When he was 10 years old, his parents told him that he was adopted; he recalls, "I knew I didn't look like them ." He telephones his parents every day . He has an older brother, John, who was also adopted . </P> <P> Judge attended Linden High School, where he was a three - sport star . He played as a pitcher and first baseman for the baseball team, a wide receiver for the football team, and as a center for the basketball team . He set a school record for touchdowns (17) in football and led the team in points per game (18.2) in basketball . In baseball, he was part of the Linden High School team that made the California Interscholastic Federation Division III playoffs . </P> <P> Various colleges recruited Judge to play tight end in football, including Notre Dame, Stanford, and UCLA, but he preferred baseball . The Oakland Athletics selected him in the 31st round of the 2010 Major League Baseball draft, but he opted to enroll at California State University, Fresno (Fresno State), to play for the Fresno State Bulldogs baseball team in the Western Athletic Conference (WAC). Louisville Slugger named him a Freshman All - American . He won the 2012 TD Ameritrade College Home Run Derby . In his junior year, Judge led the Bulldogs in home runs, doubles, and runs batted in (RBIs). Judge was named to the all - conference team in all three of his seasons for the Bulldogs--in the WAC in his first two seasons, and the Mountain West Conference (MW) as a junior (the Bulldogs joined the MW in July 2012, between his sophomore and junior seasons). </P>

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