Fun card to add to my long running "nicknames" thread, one for baseball patriarch Sandy Alomar Sr., aka the "Iron Pony", who had himself a very nice 15 year Major League career before giving way to two sons who did the same years later:
Alomar
the Senior was to have his finest year in the Big Leagues in 1971,
hitting .260 with 179 hits, leading the A.L. with 162 games played and
689 at-bats for the California Angels.
He
was coming off his only All-Star season of 1970, where his numbers
pretty much matched his 1971 output, with 169 hits, a .251 average and a
career-best 82 runs.
Alomar came up with the Milwaukee Braves back in 1964, but didn’t get to
play full-time until he joined the California Angels in 1969, where he
would play until he was purchased by the New York Yankees in July of
1974.
He’d play the last two seasons of his career with the Texas Rangers, retiring after the 1978 season before moving on to coaching for various organizations.
Of course, he also had a couple of sons who became pretty good baseball players themselves, 1990 American Rookie of the Year Sandy Alomar Jr, and future Hall of Fame second baseman Roberto Alomar.
Not a bad baseball family tree!
He’d play the last two seasons of his career with the Texas Rangers, retiring after the 1978 season before moving on to coaching for various organizations.
Of course, he also had a couple of sons who became pretty good baseball players themselves, 1990 American Rookie of the Year Sandy Alomar Jr, and future Hall of Fame second baseman Roberto Alomar.
Not a bad baseball family tree!
