Hughes was drafted #2 overall by Chicago in the 1967 Amateur Draft, and would have some decent years in the Minors before making it up to the Big Leagues as a September call-up.
Sadly for him however, he’d be back in the Minors all of 1971 and 1972 before getting another shot on a Major League field, now as a member of the St. Louis Cardinals, in 1973 with eleven games, in which he hit .214 with three hits over 14 at-bats.
The following year he’d see the most action in his brief three-year career, playing in 41 games for the Boston Red Sox, enough action to get him a Topps card in the 1975 set.
He hit .203 for the Red Sox in 1974, but once again would go on to play another two full seasons in the Minors before retiring for good as a player after a Triple-A season with Tulsa in the St. Louis system.
All told, Hughes hit .209 over 54 games, collecting 18 hits, including a homer, with seven RBI’s and six runs scored.
