Good day all!
On
the blog today, from my upcoming custom "1980s Career-Cappers" set, a
1987 capper for Cesar Cedeno, who finished up a wonderful Major League
career in 1986 with the Los Angeles Dodgers:
In
that last season in the Big Leagues, Cedeno appeared in 37 games for
L.A., hitting .231 over 78 at-bats, with 18 hits, five runs scored and
six RBIs.
Cedeno had the speed, the power, and the talent to put together a
five-year stretch where he brought home 5 straight Gold Gloves, get
named to four all-star teams while topping the 20/50 mark three years in
a row between 1972 and 1976.
In 1974 he had a monster season that saw him hit a career-high 26 homers AND steal a career-high 57 stolen bases along with, you guessed it, a career-high 102 runs batted in.
I would love to know the numbers he could have put up had he not played in the cavernous Astrodome for the first 12 years of his career!
In 1974 he had a monster season that saw him hit a career-high 26 homers AND steal a career-high 57 stolen bases along with, you guessed it, a career-high 102 runs batted in.
I would love to know the numbers he could have put up had he not played in the cavernous Astrodome for the first 12 years of his career!
By the time he was done after the 1986 season, he retired with 199
homers and 550 stolen bases, along with a very nice .285 batting average
and 2087 hits.
An excellent player who was easily overshadowed by contemporaries of the era.
An excellent player who was easily overshadowed by contemporaries of the era.
