On the blog today, a third "not so missing" card for former outfielder/first baseman Joe Simpson here on the blog, this one a 1978 edition:
Simpson
appeared in 29 games for the National League champion Los Angeles
Dodgers during their 1977 season, hitting .174 with four hits over 23
at-bats while getting some time out in all three outfield positions and
first base.
He'd be back in 1978 but for only 10 games before finding himself playing for the Seattle mariners in 1979.
Between 1979 and 1982 he averaged about 110 games a year before ending
up with the Kansas City Royals in 1983 in what would end up being his
last year as a Major League player.
Overall, Simpson finished his nine-year career with a .242 average based on his 338 hits in 1397 at-bats, with 166 runs scored and 124 runs batted in, while also leaving his mark on a pre-teen kid who’d constantly see “Joe Simpson” on what seemed every other card in the early-80’s.
Overall, Simpson finished his nine-year career with a .242 average based on his 338 hits in 1397 at-bats, with 166 runs scored and 124 runs batted in, while also leaving his mark on a pre-teen kid who’d constantly see “Joe Simpson” on what seemed every other card in the early-80’s.
