On the blog today we have a "not so missing" 1978 card for former
infielder Jimmy Sexton, who made his Big League debut with the Seattle
Mariners during their inaugural 1977 season:
Sexton
appeared in 14 games with the new Seattle franchise, hitting .216 with
eight hits over 37 official at-bats, scoring five runs and driving in
three.
He would find himself a member of the Houston Astros in
1978, and he would appear in what turned out to be a career-high 88
games that year, hitting .206 with 29 hits, 17 runs and six RBIs while
stealing 16 bases.
In 1979 he'd play in 52 games before
playing all of 1980 in the Minors, making it back to the Majors in 1981
as a member of the West Champion Oakland A's, though playing in only
seven games before bumping up to 69 games in 1982.
In 1983,
he'd be on the move again, now with the St. Louis cardinals, where he
appeared in only six games in what turned out to be the last Major
League action he'd see, collecting one hit over nine at-bats.
The
dude was a stolen base machine in the Minors, finishing his career with
335 steals while adding another 36 in the Majors for a total of 371
stolen bases over his pro career.
Nevertheless, his Big League totals looked like this: a .218 batting average over 236 games, with 81 hits in 372 at-bats, with 53 runs scored and 24 RBIs between 1977 and 1983.
