On the blog today, we have a "not so missing" 1970 card for Hall of Fame manager Bobby Cox, who wrapped up a brief two-year playing career in 1969 with 85 games with the New York Yankees:
Cox
hit .215 in that final taste of the Big Leagues, collecting 41 hits
over 191 at-bats while playing both third and second base.
The
previous season he appeared in 135 games in his Major League debut,
hitting .229 with 100 hits in 437 at-bats, scoring 33 runs while driving
in 41.
Turns out that would be it for him as a player,
spending parts of the next two years in the Minors before moving on to
coaching, then as manager beginning in 1978 at the age of 37 with the
Atlanta Braves.
He would go on to manage 29 seasons in the
Majors, guiding many powerhouse teams like the 1985 Toronto Blue Jays
and the dynastic Atlanta Braves of the late-90's/early-00's.
By
the time he retired as a manager, he finished with 2504 wins and five
National League pennants, as well as a World Series win in 1995.
He
finished in 1st place in his division an incredible 15 times, with
eleven of them coming consecutively between 1991 and 2005, topping 100
wins six times.
Just an incredible managerial resume that got him inducted to the Hall of Fame in 2014.
