Good day all!
On
the blog today we cap-off Johnnie LeMaster's career with a 1988 card
showing him as a member of the Oakland A's, with whom he suited up in
1987:
Lemaster made it back to the Majors in
1987 after a year in the Minors, appearing in 20 games for Oakland and
hitting a low .083 with two hits over 24 at-bats.
He
previously split the 1985 season with three teams, the San Francisco
Giants, Cleveland Indians and Pittsburgh Pirates, appearing in a
combined 45 games and hitting .128.
Pretty much spending his
entire career in San Francisco, LeMaster originally came up in 1975 and
played through the 1984 season with the Giants, generally a light bat,
good fielding shortstop.
His finest season would arguably be
the 1983 campaign when he set personal bests in games, at-bats, runs
(81), hits (128) and stolen bases (39) while hitting .240 over 132
games.
The typical 1970s middle infielder, though his average hovered around the .220-.240 mark, he always had a job.
By
the time he retired he finished with a .222 career average, with 709
hits over 3191 at-bats in 1039 games, scoring 320 runs while driving in
229.
