The sum total of Reams’ Major League career is one game, one plate appearance, one at-bat, which resulted in a strikeout.
The one taste of MLB action came on May 7th of the 1969 season, exactly TWO days before yours truly was born at Coney Island Hospital in Brooklyn, NY.
For Reams, after toiling in the Minor Leagues since 1962 for the Phillies and New York Yankee organizations, he finally made it up on that Spring day, pinch-hitting for pitcher Barry Lersch in a 6-1 loss against the Houston Astros.
But he’d never see MLB action again, finishing up his pro career in the Detroit Tigers organization in 1970 after batting a combined .193 over 46 games between Toledo and Montgomery.
