Is believed to be the first Native American of Navajo descent to play in the major leagues...Hometown of Madras, OR had a parade in his honor in November 2007.

In his first full big league season, led the A.L. in steals (50) and ranked among league leaders in infield hits (3rd, 34), bunt hits (T4th, 10), triples (T6th, 7), and runs (T12th, 98)...Topped the club in triples, was 2nd in at-bats (554) and runs, tied for 2nd in games (145), and 3rd in hits (155)....Started 63 games in center field, 36 in left, and 30 in right without an error in 336 chances.

ROOKIES CLASS: Led all rookies in at-bats, runs and steals and matched Minnesota's Denard Span and San Francisco's Eugenio Velez for the most triples...Led A.L. rookies in games, hits and multi-hit games (40), was 3rd in total bases (218), 5th in walks (41), and 7th in extrabase hits (38)...Had the most games, at-bats, runs and triples for a Red Sox rookie since Nomar Garciaparra in 1997 (153 G, 684 AB, 122 R, 11 3B).

STEAL CITY: His 50 steals were 3rd most in Red Sox history behind Tommy Harper (54) in 1973 and Tris Speaker (52) in 1912...Were 3rd most in the majors trailing Colorado's Willy Taveras (68) and the New York Mets' Jose Reyes (56)...Was the first Boston player to lead A.L. in steals since Harper in 1973 and just the 2nd in the last 54 years (beginning 1955)...Was the first rookie to top his league in stolen bases since Seattle's Ichiro Suzuki (56) in 2001...Were most steals by ML rookie since Florida's Hanley Ramirez (51) in 2006, most in A.L. since Ichiro in 2001...Was 20th rookie in ML history with 50+ SB...Finished 7th in the A.L. with an 82.0 percent success rate (50 of 61). Set a club record with 14 multi-steal games, tying Taveras for the major league lead...Stole 3 bases each in consecutive games, May 30-31 at Baltimore, the most in one game for a Red Sox since Jerry Remy's club record 4 on June 14, 1980...Was the first Sox player with as many as 6 swipes in consecutive games since research is first available in 1954...Tied for the ML lead with 18 steals in May, matching the most for a Red Sox in a single month since 1954 (Harper in September 1973). Succeeded in season's first 16 attempts before being caught on May 18 vs. Milwaukee...Ended a string of 25 successful tries to start his career, longest ever by a Red Sox and longest in the majors since Montreal's Tim Raines went 27-for-27 from 1979-81...Stole 35 bases in first 39 attempts through July 1, then went 25 games without a theft through August 4...Had 2 steals in last 12 games...Was 8-for-10 in steal tries of 3rd...4 of 11 caught stealings came on pitcher pickoffs.

WITH THE BAT: Was 7-for-33 (.212) in season's first 15 games before hitting at a .321 (36-for-112) clip over next 30 games, improving to .297 through May 23...Batted .244 (53-for-217) in next 35 contests, improving to .258 on August 12...Had a .315 (56-for-178) average in his final 44 games. Hit safely in final 18 games beginning September 10 at .370 (30-for-81)...Was the longest hitting streak by a major league rookie since Anaheim's Robb Quinlan (21) in 2004 and the longest by a Red Sox first year player since Garciaparra's club-record 30-gamer in 1997...Finished the year with the longest active streak in the majors. His 34 infield hits were the most by a Red Sox since Johnny Damon (37) in 2002...Homered twice on April 22 vs. the Angels with first-inning leadoff homers in that game, May 21 against Kansas City, and September 26 vs. New York...Went deep in back-to-back games, August 6 and 9.

FIELDING: Did not make an error in 140 games and 336 total chances, the first rookie qualifying outfielder ever with a 1.000 fielding percentage in a season...Had the 2nd most chances without an error of any major league outfielder behind the Angels' Torii Hunter (353)...Established club record for consecutive errorless outfield chances in a season and tied Carl Yastrzemski (1977) for most consecutive errorless games in a year...Damon held the total chances mark at 307 in 2002. Has not made an error in 173 games and 410 chances in his major league career, the 2nd longest overall outfield errorless streaks in team history to 178 games for Mike Greenwell, 1993-94 and 429 chances for Coco Crisp, 2006-07.

BY THE NUMBERS: Was Boston's primary leadoff hitter, batting .272 (135-for-497) in 115 games in the top spot...Hit .277 (38-for-137) with runners in scoring position...Has reached base safely via a hit, walk, or HBP in 141 of 168 ML games with a plate appearance.

TOP PROSPECT: Entered 2008 as the No. 2 prospect overall and the No. 1 position player in the Red Sox organization, according to Baseball America...The same publication also rates him as the Fastest Baserunner, Best Athlete, and Best Defensive Outfielder in the Sox system.