Today on the blog, we "correct", or rather update John Donaldson's 1970 card, with the advantage of time, to have him posed in his true Seattle Pilots uniform as opposed to a close-up shot of him clearly in an Oakland A's uni:
Donaldson
came over to the Pilots in the middle of June in a trade for Larry
haney, playing the first three and a half years with the Athletics
organization.
He'd play in 95 games for the Pilots, hitting
.234 with 79 hits in 338 at-bats with a homer and 19 runs batted in
while playing the infield.
In 1970, Donaldson found himself back with the A's and appeared in 41 games, with 98 plate appearances
while hitting .247 with 22 hits with four runs scored and eleven runs
batted in.
He'd be out of Major League ball until the 1974 season, when he'd
make a brief reappearance with the A's, appearing in only 10 games for
the World Champions.
All told, Donaldson's career lasted 6-years, playing in 405 games,
with a .238 lifetime batting average, 96 runs scored, 292 hits and 86
RBI's over 1225 at-bats and 1380 plate appearances.
