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Milton Obelle Bradley, Jr. (born April 15, 1978 in Harbor City, California) is a Major League Baseball outfielder for the Chicago Cubs.
Bradley is named after his father, Milton Bradley, Sr., who filled out the birth certificate form without his wife's permission. As Milton's mother says of his father, "He wanted a Junior, and made damn sure he got one." Junior, who shares a name with a popular board game pioneer, has always been teased about his name, but has never changed it because the memories it evokes "only drive him harder".
Bradley was drafted out of Long Beach Polytechnic High School in the second round of the 1996 draft by the Montréal Expos. In the Expos' farm system, he hit a Game 5 walk-off grand slam home run to win the 1999 Double-A Eastern League Championship for the Harrisburg Senators..