AS REQUESTED: NOT REALLY MISSING IN ACTION: 1969 DICK KENWORTHY

Fun card to create based off a short discussion on "X" the other day, a 1969 "not so missing" card for Dick Kenworthy, which has a bit of a twist:

You see, Kenworthy put in parts of six seasons in the Major Leagues between 1962 and 1968, yet only got one card in a Topps set, in 1968 shown as a New York Met.

The problem here is that he put in all six of his Big League seasons with the Chicago White Sox!

So here I created a "career-capper" to mark his time as a White Sox player.

To be fair to Topps, Kenworthy was purchased by the Mets in October of 1967, only to be returned to the White Sox in March of 1968, so that's where the confusion came from.

Though he only played in 17 games spread across his first four seasons between 1962 and 1966, he did appear in 50 and 58 games respectively in 1967 and 1968, his final two years as a Big Leaguer.

Overall, he would finish with a .215 batting average over 125 total games, with 54 hits in 251 at-bats, with four home runs and 13 runs batted in, while scoring 12 himself.

Fun little quirk in the Topps baseball card world, fixed here!

 

CAREER-CAPPER: 1973 PHIL REGAN

Today on the blog we'll go ahead and give former reliever Phil Regan a 1973 "career-capper" to celebrate a nice 13-year Big League tenure:

Regan split the 1972 season with the Chicago Cubs and crosstown Chicago White Sox, appearing in 15 games and going 0-2 with a 3.63 earned run average in 17.1 innings.

He would have a couple of incredible seasons on a Big League mound, particularly his 1966 campaign with the Los Angeles Dodgers when he posted a record of 14-1 with a sparkling 1.62 ERA over 116.2 innings, leading the National League with 21 saves, helping L.A. go to the World Series.

Two years later, splitting the year with the Dodgers and Cubs, he'd post a record of 12-5 with a 2.27 ERA over 134.2 innings, leading the league once again in saves, this time with 25.

By the time he retired, he appeared in 551 games between 1960 and 1972, finishing with a record of 96-81, with a 3.84 ERA over 1372.2 innings, saving 92 games.

Not too shabby!

 

WTHBALLS CUSTOM SET SPOTLIGHT: 1960S STARS OF THE GAME: MINNIE MINOSO

On the blog today, we spotlight another card from my 2018 custom "1960 Stars of the Game" gelatin set, this time that of HOFer Minnie Minoso:

I'm so happy that Minoso is finally a Hall of Famer, and I always felt the stunts in 1976 and 1980 may have even hurt his chances of getting into Cooperstown.
From 1951 to 1961 he had a wonderful Major League career, leading the league in stolen bases three times, triples three times, and hits and doubles once each, while also driving in over 100 runs four times and topping 20 homers four times.
Eight times in that span he would top a .300 batting average, and in 1951 many consider him the true American League Rookie of the Year when he hit .326 split between the Cleveland Indians and Chicago White Sox, while topping the league in triples with 14 and stolen bases with 31.
Along the way he was named to seven All-Star games, winning three Gold Gloves as well, funny enough finishing fourth in the A.L. MVP race four times.
Of course, 12 years after his last playing days, in 1976, he ended up going 1-for-8 at the plate as a 50 year-old, then coming back in 1980 at the age of 54 and going hitless in two at-bats.
Nevertheless, Minoso finished his career with a .298 average, with 1963 hits over 6579 at-bats, along with 186 homers and 205 stolen bases while also topping 1000 runs scored and RBIs, 1136 & 1023 respectively.

If only he didn't have to wait until his age 27 season to show the ENTIRE country what he could do on a ball field.

 

MISSING IN ACTION: 1965 DON MOSSI

As promised recently on Twitter, today on the blog we have a "missing" 1965 card for pitcher Don Mossi, who suited up for the Chicago White Sox in 1964, having a decent year, and for some reason getting ignored by Topps the following year:

Mossi appeared in 34 games for the White Sox, all in relief, going 3-1 with a nice 2.93 ERA over 40 innings, with seven saves and 36 strikeouts.

The following season turned out to be his last as a Big Leaguer, suiting up for the Kansas City Athletics, going 5-8 over 51 games at the age of 36, pitching to a 3.74 ERA in 55.1 innings, once again posting seven saves.

Mossi had some really good years in the Majors over his 12 seasons under the Sun, with his two finest arguably 1959 and 1961 with the Detroit Tigers when he posted records of 17-9 and 15-7 respectively with ERAs of 3.36 and 2.96 as a starter.

By the time he did retire, he finished with a record of 101-80 over 460 appearances, with a 3.43 ERA and 50 saves between 1954 and 1965.

WTHBALLS CUSTOM SET SPOTLIGHT: 1960S STARS OF THE GAME: NELLIE FOX

Up on the blog today, we spotlight my 1960 "Stars of the Game" card of Hall of Famer Nellie Fox, from my custom set released back in 2018:

Fox put together a brilliant Major League career, first as a Hall of Fame second baseman mainly for the Chicago White Sox, then as a coach later on, a true baseball life before sadly passing away at the young age of 47 in 1975.
He led the AL in hits four times in the 1950’s, and of course would lead the Chicago White Sox to the 1959 World Series, taking home the league’s MVP Award for his efforts.
By the time he retired as a player after two years with the Houston Astros in 1964-65, he finished with 2663 hits and a .288 batting average, with twelve all-star nods and three Gold Gloves.
Defensively, it’s incredible to see he led the American League in putouts every single season between 1952 and 1961, while leading the league’s second basemen in fielding percentage six times, double-plays five times and assists six times.
In 1997, the Veteran’s Committee selected Fox for the Hall of Fame, joining former teammates Luis Aparicio and Early Wynn from that 1959 pennant winning team.

CAREER-CAPPER: 1987 GEORGE FOSTER

Up on the blog today, we have my 1987 "Career-Capper" for former N.L. MVP George Foster, who wrapped up an excellent Major League career in 1986:

Foster split his final year in the Big Leagues between the New York Mets and Chicago White Sox, unfortunately for him missing out on the eventual World Championship at season's end.

Overall he hit .225 over 87 games, with 14 homers and 42 RBIs on 284 at-bats.

Back in 1969 Foster appeared in nine games for the San Francisco Giants, hitting a robust .400 with two hits in five at-bats, with both a run scored and an RBI.

It was his first taste of the Majors, and he would again appear in nine games during the 1970 season, hitting .316 with six hits over 19 at-bats, including his first double, triple and home run.

The 1971 season would bring him incredible fortune when he was traded to the Cincinnati Reds for Frank Duffy and Vern Geishert, part of the building process that would eventually lead to the juggernaut "Big Red Machine" two-time champion Reds teams of the mid-70s.

As for Foster’s career, all he would go on to do is give the Reds another big time bat along with Pete Rose, Johnny Bench and Tony Perez, with Joe Morgan soon joining them in 1972, forming one of the all-time great line-ups the game has ever seen.
Between, Foster, Bench, Rose and Morgan, it would give the Reds five MVP seasons in the decade, just insane, with Foster having his career-year in 1977 when he slammed 52 homers along with 149 RBIs and 124 runs scored, all leading numbers in the National League.
He’d go on to play 18 years in the Big Leagues, finishing in the top-3 in MVP voting three times, while making five All-Star teams and retiring with 348 home runs, 1239 RBIs and just under 2000 hits with 1925.

NOT REALLY MISSING IN ACTION: 1976 TIM STODDARD

Up on the blog today, a "not so missing" 1976 card for pitcher Tim Stoddard, who had his rookie card in the 1975 set, but was left out of the 1976 set by Topps:

Stoddard appeared in only one game for the White Sox in 1975, the first game of his career, tossing an inning and giving up a run on two hits.

He would be in the Minors for the 1976 and 1977 seasons before making it back with eight games for the Orioles in 1978, going 0-1 with a 6.00 earned run average over 18 innings.

In 1979 he would have himself a very good year for the eventual American league champs, appearing in 29 games, saving three and pitching to a stellar 1.71 ERA over 58 innings.

He would go on to put in 13 seasons under the Major League sun, appearing in 485 games and compiling a final record of 41-35 with a 3.95 ERA in 729.2 innings of work.

I remember his time with the New York Yankees in the late-80s, where he performed well, going 6-5 with eleven saves in 85 games in 1987-1988.

 

WTHBALLS CUSTOM SET SPOTLIGHT: 1960S STARS OF THE GAME: LUIS APARICIO

Up on the blog today we feature my 1960 "Stars of the game" for Hall of Famer Luis Aparicio, from my custom set released back in 2018:

From the moment he made it to the Majors in 1956 with the Chicago White Sox, Aparicio was a star.

He took home the A.L. Rookie of the Year that season, and proceeded to be an all-star player for most of his 18-year career.

Between 1956 and 1964, nine consecutive years, he led the American League in stolen bases every single season!

As a member of the "Go-Go" 1959 Chicago White Sox he finished second to teammate Nellie Fox for Most Valuable Player, and he'd go on to win nine Gold Glove Awards before hanging up the spikes.

All told he suited up for the White Sox, Baltimore Orioles, and Boston Red Sox for the final three years of his illustrious career.

By the time he retired the numbers were solid: 2677 hits, 1335 runs scored, 506 stolen bases and over 10000 at-bats!

It took a few years on the ballot, but he was finally inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1984.

 

1960s ALL-DECADE ALL-STARS: RELIEVER HOYT WILHELM

Good day all!

Here's another card I had printed up for a recent WTHBALLS set that never made it to the blog for some reason, my 1970 "All-Decade" 1960s card for the reliever of the decade, Hoyt Wilhelm, Hall of Fame knuckleballer:

Just a beautiful photo of the man with the New York Giants early in his career, a Big League tenure that would begin late, run years beyond most other careers, and lead right to the Hall of Fame, as it should have.

Who knows what he could have done if he remained a starter. Who knows what his career numbers would have been if he began his career in his early 20's instead of at the ripe "old" age of 29!
Think about this for a second: the man started his career at 29 and he STILL pitched in 21 seasons. He still ended up setting what was then the all-time record for appearances by a pitcher with 1070.
Throw in seven seasons of sub-2.00 E.R.A.'s, 227 saves, and on top of all of that, TWO E.R.A. crowns in the ONLY two years he even threw enough innings to qualify, and you definitely have a Hall of Fame career when it's all said and done.
Take a look at Wilhelm's rookie season. In 1952 he shows up in New York, pitching for the Giants, and all he does is go 15-3 in 159.1 innings, with a league-leading 2.43 E.R.A. and 11 saves. And this was ALL in relief! He appeared in 71 games without a single start. Just awesome.
He also managed to hit a home run in his first Major League at bat on April 23, 1952, never to hit another one in his career. Go figure.
It would then be another seven years before he would pitch more than 154 innings, this time topping out with a career high 226 with the Baltimore Orioles in 1959 mainly as a starter.
His other numbers that year were good enough to have him selected as an All-Star: 15-11, league-leading 2.19 E.R.A., and 13 complete games with three shut outs.
Whether you had him starting or coming in as a reliever, he was up for the challenge.
Wilhelm finally called it a career after the 1972 season where he appeared in only 16 games for the L.A. Dodgers.
Over the course of his last five seasons (all post-45 years of age), he bounced around a bit and pitched for five teams: White Sox, Angels, Braves, Dodgers and Cubs, going 17-18 with 43 saves.
Nevertheless, Wilhelm was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1985, generally considered the first relief pitcher to have this honor bestowed upon him.

 

SPECIAL REQUEST: 1987 CAREER-CAPPER FOR JACK PERCONTE

By special request, here's a 1987 career-capper for former infielder Jack Perconte, one of the more interesting that had one excellent year in the Big Leagues, surrounded by partial years in their career:

Originally up with the Los Angeles Dodgers in 1980 for only 14 games, Perconte would play parts of five years between 1980 and 1986, surrounding two seasons in 1984 and 1985 where he was a full-timer with the Seattle Mariners.

His 1984 season was very solid for the light-hitting middle infielder, when he set career bests across the board, scoring 93 runs, collecting 180 hits, hitting .294 over 689 plate appearances for Seattle.

He never came close to those numbers again, though the following year he did appear in 125 games for the Mariners, hitting .264 with 128 hits and 60 runs scored, and a career best 31 stolen bases.

By the time he wrapped up his career with 24 games as a Chicago White Sox in 1986, he finished with a very decent .270 career batting average, with 389 hits in 1441 at-bats, with 191 runs scored and 78 stolen bases.

 

REVISITING A 10-YEAR-OLD POST: "MISSING" 1979 JIM BREAZEALE

On the blog today, we venture back 10 years and revisit my post for a "missing" 1979 card, that of former first baseman Jim Breazeale, who got a couple of creations here on the blog over the years:

Breazeale, who hadn't appeared in Major League action since 1972 when he was with the Atlanta Braves, made it back to hit .208 with 15 hits over 72 at-bats with three doubles, three home runs and 13 runs batted in over 25 games for the Sox in 1978.

He did have a Topps card in the 1973 set after having the most playing time of his short 4-year career in 1972.

That season he played in 52 games, batting .247 over 85 at-bats, collecting 21 hits, a couple of doubles and five home runs with 17 RBI's.

The 1978 action with the White Sox would prove to be the final time he saw on a Major League field, closing out his career with a .223 average, with 40 hits over 179 at-bats, with nine homers  and 33 RBI's thrown in.

 

1960s IN-ACTION: 1961 MINNIE MINOSO

Up on the blog today, we have a 1961 "In-Action" card for HOFer Minnie Minoso, from my upcoming Series 3 of the series available soon:

Nice shot of the "Cuban Comet" from the early part of the 1960s, doing what he did best.

I'm so happy that Minoso is finally a Hall of Famer, and I always felt the stunts in 1976 and 1980 may have even hurt his chances of getting into Cooperstown.
From 1951 to 1961 he had a wonderful Major League career, leading the league in stolen bases three times, triples three times, and hits and doubles once each, while also driving in over 100 runs four times and topping 20 homers four times.
Eight times in that span he would top a .300 batting average, and in 1951 many consider him the true American League Rookie of the Year when he hit .326 split between the Cleveland Indians and Chicago White Sox, while topping the league in triples with 14 and stolen bases with 31.
Along the way he was named to seven All-Star games, winning three Gold Gloves as well, funny enough finishing fourth in the A.L. MVP race four times.
Of course, 12 years after his last playing days, in 1976, he ended up going 1-for-8 at the plate as a 50 year-old, then coming back in 1980 at the age of 54 and going hitless in two at-bats.
Nevertheless, Minoso finished his career with a .298 average, with 1963 hits over 6579 at-bats, along with 186 homers and 205 stolen bases while also topping 1000 runs scored and RBIs, 1136 & 1023 respectively.

If only he didn't have to wait until his age 27 season to show the ENTIRE country what he could do on a ball field.

 

"CLASSIC BASEBALL" CUSTOM WTHBALLS SET: MINNIE MINOSO

Let us go and add the great Minnie Minoso to my long-running custom "Classic Baseball" set, a WTHBALLS exclusive design that I hope to have printed up this Spring:

I'm so happy that Minoso is finally a Hall of Famer, and I always felt the stunts in 1976 and 1980 may have even hurt his chances of getting into Cooperstown.
From 1951 to 1961 he had a wonderful Major League career, leading the league in stolen bases three times, triples three times, and hits and doubles once each, while also driving in over 100 runs four times and topping 20 homers four times.
Eight times in that span he would top a .300 batting average, and in 1951 many consider him the true American League Rookie of the Year when he hit .326 split between the Cleveland Indians and Chicago White Sox, while topping the league in triples with 14 and stolen bases with 31.
Along the way he was named to seven All-Star games, winning three Gold Gloves as well, funny enough finishing fourth in the A.L. MVP race four times.
Of course, 12 years after his last playing days, in 1976, he ended up going 1-for-8 at the plate as a 50 year-old, then coming back in 1980 at the age of 54 and going hitless in two at-bats.
Nevertheless, Minoso finished his career with a .298 average, with 1963 hits over 6579 at-bats, along with 186 homers and 205 stolen bases while also topping 1000 runs scored and RBIs, 1136 & 1023 respectively.

If only he didn't have to wait until his age 27 season to show the ENTIRE country what he could do on a ball field.

 

MISSING IN ACTION: 1963 FLEER EARLY WYNN

Decided to add on to my "missing" 1963 Fleer series, this time with a card for Hall of Fame 300-game winner Early Wynn:

I'm not planning a second series for this set, but recently I've come to look at it a bit closer and realized I COULD put together another custom set to add to a set I have always loved.

Wynn's Major League romp towards 300 career wins didn't really pick up steam until he was 30-years old and a member of the Cleveland Indians in 1950, as he posted an 18-8 record with a league-leading 3.20 earned run average.

From then on he was hovering around 20-wins every year for the next ten years, topping the mark five times.

In 1959, now a member of the "Go-Go" Chicago White Sox, Wynn anchored the staff that led the team to a World Series appearance against the eventual champs, the Los Angeles Dodgers, by posting a 22-10 record, leading the league in wins and copping a Cy Young Award at the age of 39.

However, the struggle to get that elusive 300th win is now well-documented, as he hung on for the next four years until he got that final victory in 1963 at the age of 43, thus joining the exclusive club and pretty much sealing his Cooperstown induction in his fourth year of eligibility, getting 76% of the BBWA vote.

All told, Wynn finished his 23-year career with a 300-244 record, with a 3.54 E.R.A., 49 shutouts and 2334 strikeouts in 691 games, 611 of which were starts, and was named to seven all-star teams.

 

THE WHOLE NINE: SERIES 2- MISSING IN ACTION: 1981 MINNIE MINOSO

On the blog today, we have my "not really missing" 1981 card for Minnie Minoso, from my recent custom "Whole Nine: Series 2" set released a few months ago:

I'm so happy that Minoso is finally a Hall of Famer, and I always felt the stunts in 1976 and 1980 may have even hurt his chances of getting into Cooperstown.
From 1951 to 1961 he had a wonderful Major League career, leading the league in stolen bases three times, triples three times, and hits and doubles once each, while also driving in over 100 runs four times and topping 20 homers four times.
Eight times in that span he would top a .300 batting average, and in 1951 many consider him the true American League Rookie of the Year when he hit .326 split between the Cleveland Indians and Chicago White Sox, while topping the league in triples with 14 and stolen bases with 31.
Along the way he was named to seven All-Star games, winning three Gold Gloves as well, funny enough finishing fourth in the A.L. MVP race four times.
Of course, 12 years after his last playing days, in 1976, he ended up going 1-for-8 at the plate as a 50 year-old, then coming back in 1980 at the age of 54 and going hitless in two at-bats.
Nevertheless, Minoso finished his career with a .298 average, with 1963 hits over 6579 at-bats, along with 186 homers and 205 stolen bases while also topping 1000 runs scored and RBIs, 1136 & 1023 respectively.

If only he didn't have to wait until his age 27 season to show the ENTIRE country what he could do on a ball field.

FOR FUN: 1977 "NOT REALLY MISSING IN ACTION" PETE VARNEY

Found this great image of former catcher Pete Varney, and figured I'd create a "not so missing" 1977 card, even though he did finish the 1976 season as a member of the Atlanta Braves after starting the season on the South Side of Chicago:

The Harvard educated young man appeared in 14 games for the White Sox, hitting .244 before getting traded to Atlanta for "Blue Moon" Odom on June 15th, 1976.

He'd only appear in five games for the Braves the rest of the way, the last five games of his brief four-year career, hitting .100 for them with a single hit over ten at-bats.

In 1975 he’d see the most action in any one season, playing in 36 games for the White Sox, batting .271 with 29 hits in 107 official at-bats, including 12 runs scored and eight runs batted in.

He’d play all of 1977 in the Minors for Atlanta before retiring as a player, finishing up with a career .247 average, with 47 hits over 190 at-bats, with 18 runs scored and 15 RBIs.

A RE-DO OF ONE OF MY OWN! 1973 RICK REICHARDT

Time to finally correct a mistake I made way back when with my "missing in action" 1973 card for former Bonus Baby Rick Reichardt, when I mistakenly used an image of Pete Varney.

Well today we have the corrected version with a correct image of the man that was mainly responsible for the Amateur Draft because of the insane money and hoopla over his impending pro career:

Reichardt played in 101 games during the 1972 season, batting .251 with 73 hits over 291 at-bats with eight home runs and 43 runs batted in during his second season with the Chicago White Sox.
That is serious playing time to be omitted from the Topps set, so I’m wondering if he just didn’t want to be on a card ala Mike Marshall or Tony Horton around the same time.
Of course, Reichardt is well remembered as a spectacular two-sport superstar at the University of Wisconsin, so much so that a bidding war began by Major League clubs for his services, eventually having him sign a then unheard of $200,000 signing bonus with the (then) Los Angeles Angels of the American League.
This necessitated the development of the Amateur Draft, which began the very next year in hopes of curtailing such a wild scenario as the Reichardt affair.
Sadly for Reichardt, a serious kidney ailment cut short an excellent 1966 season which saw him have a kidney removed, and though he put up some decent numbers from time to time through the rest of his career, he was never the same again, eventually retiring after a single at-bat with the Kansas City Royals in 1974.
His last Topps card was in the 1971 set, which is odd since he really should have had a card from 1972 to 1974.
I actually already created a 1972 “missing” card for him a while back, and once I can find a decent shot of him with the Royals, I plan on doing the same for both 1974 and 1975.
Anyone have good images of him with KC?

"CLASSIC BASEBALL" CUSTOM WTHBALLS SET: EARLY WYNN

The next baseball great to get a card in my custom "Classic Baseball" set is 300-game winner Early Wynn, a favorite subject of mine here on the blog:

Just a fun photo showing a bit of the Hall of Famer's personality: no nonsense and a bit of an intimidator when getting down to business on the mound.

Wynn's Major League romp towards 300 career wins didn't really pick up steam until he was 30-years old and a member of the Cleveland Indians in 1950, as he posted an 18-8 record with a league-leading 3.20 earned run average.

From then on he was hovering around 20-wins every year for the next ten years, topping the mark five times.

In 1959, now a member of the "Go-Go" Chicago White Sox, Wynn anchored the staff that led the team to a World Series appearance against the eventual champs, the Los Angeles Dodgers, by posting a 22-10 record, leading the league in wins and copping a Cy Young Award at the age of 39.

However, the struggle to get that elusive 300th win is now well-documented, as he hung on for the next four years until he got that final victory in 1963 at the age of 43, thus joining the exclusive club and pretty much sealing his Cooperstown induction in his fourth year of eligibility, getting 76% of the BBWA vote.

All told, Wynn finished his 23-year career with a 300-244 record, with a 3.54 E.R.A., 49 shutouts and 2334 strikeouts in 691 games, 611 of which were starts, and was named to seven all-star teams.

 

NOT REALLY MISSING IN ACTION: 1979 TOM SPENCER

Today on the blog, a 1979 "not really missing in action" card for outfielder Tom Spencer of the Chicago White Sox:

Spencer's entire Major League career consisted of 29 games over the Summer of 1978, hitting .183 with 12 hits in 65 at-bats, with three runs scored and four runs batted in while putting in time in all three outfield spots.

Aside from his brief MLB tenure, Spencer put in 12 years in professional ball, playing for the Cincinnati reds, White Sox and Houston organizations between 1970 and 1981.

Over that Minor League time he hit .272 with over 1000 hits and 173 stolen bases, but only got that one taste of the Major League sun in 1978, which of course any of us could only dream of!

Cheers Tom!

 

OPC IMAGE VARIATIONS: 1977 RICHIE ZISK

Today on the blog we take a closer look at the image variation between Richie Zisk's 1977 OPC and Topps cards, with the airbrusher using some trickery to give the illusion of a unique image when in fact all they did was zoom in and paint over the same image Topps used for their card:

OPC version

Topps version

As you can see on the OPC "White Sox" version, they cropped Zisk's photo and closed in on him and airbrushed some sweet almost neon-like blue to get him into a Chicago White Sox uniform.

For the Topps card, they went to press earlier and didn't have the time to get him out of his Pittsburgh Pirates uniform, the team Zisk played his entire Big League career for at that point.

Zisk would make his MLB debut in 1971 with seven games before coming back in 1972 with 17 appearances for the Pittsburgh Pirates.
But in 1973 he made quite the impression, hitting a cool .324 over 103 games, giving everyone an idea of what was to come.

1974 saw him elevate his game, hitting 17 homers with a .313 average and 100 runs batted in, his first of two such seasons over his career.

He was sent from the Pittsburgh Pirates to the White Sox in the Rich Gossage deal in 1977, and had one of his best years in the Majors in his only season there, hitting a career high 30 home runs and 101 runs batted in.

He was named All-Star for the first time, and was part of the "South Side Hit Men" lineup that included Oscar Gamble, Eric Soderholm and Chet Lemon, fan favorites who hit a (then) high 192 homers as a team.

He would end up playing 13 seasons under the Big League sun, for the Pirates, Chicago White Sox, Texas Rangers and Seattle Mariners between 1971 and 1983, hitting 207 homers, with 792 RBIs and 681 runs scored, hitting .287 over 1453 games and 5144 at-bats.