Slocum spent all three of his Big League seasons with the Padres, finishing up with seven games in 1971, going hitless in 18 at-bats while playing some third base.
Originally up during their inaugural 1969 season, Slocum ended up hitting .150 during his career, collecting 17 hits over 113 at-bats in 80 games.
While looking into his career for this short piece on him, I noticed that he died at the age of 43 in 1988, yet cannot find anything else on it.
As a matter of fact, it seems Major League baseball didn’t even know he died until 2014 when his daughter provided some proof of this.
Anyone know what happened?
Seems odd that there is no info out there on a former ballplayer who died so young.
