Wednesday, December 23, 2020

GIMMIE A DO-OVER: 1978 ELLIOTT MADDOX

On the blog today is a fun card, a do-over 1978 card for Elliott Maddox, who actually had a great 1978 "minor" airbrush card to show him as a member of the New York Mets, who he'd play for in 1978, but I have him here for the team he played for in 1977, the Baltimore Orioles:


Maddox appeared in 49 games for the Orioles in 1977, hitting a respectable .262 with 28 hits in 107 at-bats, with 14 runs scored and nine runs batted in.
The previous three seasons saw him play for the New York Yankees, with the first two of those years seeing him topping a .300 batting average, easily his two best seasons as a Big League player.
He'd play well for the Mets, 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.


 

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