Next card up in my "On-Card All-Star" fix is a 1970 Rico Petrocelli, celebrating the slugging shortstop's starting spot in the 1969 All-Star game:
The
fellow South Brooklyn native had quite a year for Boston in 1969,
hitting a career-best 40 home runs along with 97 runs batted in and 92
runs scored, with a .297 batting average over 154 games.
All
but the RBIs were career-bests for Rico, who would drive in 107 runs
the following season for his best RBI year as a Big Leaguer.
He
would spend his entire 13-year career with the Red Sox, coming up to
the Big Show for a single game in 1963 as a 20-year-old before coming
back for good in 1965.
In
all, Petrocelli played 13-years of Major League ball, a fan-favorite in
Boston, hitting 210 home runs with 773 RBI’s, 653 runs scored and 1352
hits, good for a .251 average over 5390 at-bats in 1553 games.
