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Joey Renard Gathright (born April 27, 1981, in Hattiesburg, Mississippi) is a Major League Baseball outfielder for the Boston Red Sox.
Gathright attended Bonnabel High School in Kenner, Louisiana, where he played baseball as a junior and boxed. He was drafted by the Tampa Bay Devil Rays in the 32nd round of the 2001 Major League Baseball Draft, and signed in August after playing that summer in a Louisiana Sugar Cane League in Sorrento, Louisiana.
He made his major league debut with the Devil Rays on June 25, 2004.