Here’s
a card that I actually created a while ago, as well as a card subject
many others have done before, the “missing” 1973 Fred Stanley card:
Stanley, aka “Chicken”, originally came up with the Seattle Pilots in
their lone 1969 season, moving with them to Milwaukee in 1970 before
playing for the Cleveland Indians in 1971,
He’d start the year with the Indians, but get shipped off to San Diego
after only nine games, appearing in another 39 games for the mustard and
brown clad Padres where he’d bat an even .200 with 17 hits over 85
at-bats.
Of course, by the time the new season started in 1973 he found himself
as a member of the New York Yankees, where he would go on to play the
next eight years, including two championship seasons in 1977 and 1978.
He’d finish off his 14-year career with two seasons in Oakland, playing
through the 1982 campaign before retiring with a career .216 batting
average, along with 356 hits over 1650 at-bats while generally playing
short and second with some third base work thrown in through the years.