Wednesday, January 8, 2020

MISSING IN ACTION- 1970 CHUCK HARRISON

Today on the blog we have a “missing” 1970 card for an original Kansas City Royal, former 1st Baseman Chuck Harrison, who played in 75 games for the new franchise in their inaugural 1969 season:


Harrison hit .221 for Kansas City in their first season as a Major League franchise, collecting 47 hits over 213 at-bats, both scoring and driving in 18 runs while solely playing at First Base.
He’d spend all of 1970 in the K.C. Minor League system before making it back to the Big Leagues a year later where he played in 49 games, the last of his five-year career, hitting .217 with 31 hits over 143 at-bats, driving in 21 while scoring 9.
He’d play in the Texas Rangers system in 1972, appearing in 46 games for the Denver Bears, but would retire without getting back to another MLB game, finishing up with a career .238 batting average over parts of seven seasons, with 241 hits over 1012 at-bats, scoring 94 runs while driving in 126 playing for the Houston Astros and Royals between 1965 and 1971.