Tuesday, April 16, 2019

MISSING IN ACTION- 1973 BROCK DAVIS

Time to go and close-out former outfielder Brock Davis’ Major League career with a 1973 career-capping card after he appeared in over a half-season’s worth of games for the Milwaukee Brewers yet was left out of the Topps set:


Davis had a very nice 1972 season for Milwaukee, hitting .318 with 49 hits in 154 at-bats, scoring 17 runs and driving in 12 himself.
Easily the best season of his sporadic run in the Majors, turns out they’d also be the last, as he’d spend the next three years in the Minor Leagues playing for four organizations before retiring for good after the 1975 campaign.
Originally up for his first taste of the Big Leagues in 1963 with the Houston Colt .45’s as a 19-year old, he went on to play parts of six seasons over 10 years, hitting .260 with 141 hits in 543 at-bats playing for Houston, Chicago Cubs and Milwaukee between 1963 and 1972.