NOT REALLY MISSING IN ACTION- 1976 BOB OLIVER

Today we have a 1976 “Career Capper” for former Kansas City Royals slugger, perhaps the first slugger the organization ever had, Bob Oliver, who wrapped up his eight-year Major League career with a handful of games with the New York Yankees in 1975:

Oliver appeared in 18 game for the Bronx Bombers, batting .132 in more of a pinch-hitting role with some play at first base, collecting five hits over 38 at-bats.
Between 1969 and 1973 he put up some decent power numbers during the modern “dead ball” era, averaging about 20 homers a season, including his best season in the Big Leagues, 1970, when he hit 27 homers with 99 runs batted in for the new Royals franchise, with 83 runs scored.
For his career, he hit 94 homers with a .256 batting average, along with 419 runs batted in and 293 runs scored, over 847 games and 2914 at-bats.