By special request today, we have on the blog a "do-over" for Elliott Maddox and his 1974 card, with today's example showing him as a New York Yankee, the team he helped finish in second place in perhaps his finest season in the Major Leagues:
Coming
over from the Texas Rangers after three years with that franchise,
Maddox immediately paid dividends, as he helped the Yanks to a very nice
89-73 record, good for second place in the American League East.
In his three seasons with the New
York Yankees, the first two saw him top a
.300 batting average, easily his two best seasons as a Big League
player.
His
1974 seasons saw him hit .303 in a full-time role, scoring 75 runs and
setting personal season-bests across the board, topped off with a
surprising 8th-place finish for the MVP Award later that year.
In
1977 he'd play for the Baltimore Orioles, though appearing in only 49
games, hitting .262 while playing center field and third base, before
going on to the New York Mets.
He'd play well for them, hitting about .260 overall over what turned out to be his last three seasons in the Majors.
He
would play in the Minors during the 1981 season but he would leave the
Big Leagues shortly after, with a career .261 average, with 742 hits in
2843 at-bats in 1029 games.
