Up on the blog today, we have a career-capper for former Minnesota twins bopper Bob Allison, who closed out a nice Major League career in 1970:
In his final season of 1970, Allison
appeared in 47 games, hitting .208 with 15 hits over 72 at-bats, scoring
15 while driving in seven, with the last home run of his career.
Playing
his entire career with the Washington Senators/Minnesota Twins
franchise, he originally came up in 1958 when he appeared in eleven
games, getting his first taste of Big League ball and hitting .200 in
that brief time.
The following year, he mashed his way to a
Rookie of the Year Award when he hit 30 homers, driving in 85 while also
leading the American League with nine triples.
Over the next
dozen years or so, he would top20 homers seven more times, with 30+ two
more times, with a high of 35 in 1963, making the All-Star team three
times with some MVP attention three times as well.
Over 1541
games between 1958 and 1970, he hit 256 homers, with 796 RBIs and 811
runs scored, with a .255 batting average and 1281 hits.