Big redhead…Slugging minor league player with limited big
league success…Long time minor leaguer…Tore up the I.L. in 1970 as a Braves
farmhand…Sparingly used by the Cubs in 1971 stacked behind Joe Pepitone and Jim
Hickman and Ernie Banks….and his production suffered…only saving grace was that
he played with his brother Danny who got time at catcher…. Danny didn’t fortune
much better….Trade to Expos provided a majority of his career playing time backing up another carrot top, Rusty Staub…In
600 Abs, he accrued two interesting achievements…hit two pinch hit home runs in
one day in a double header…plus hit one double, two triples and one home run in
a game, a feat not repeated until 2014…. Played in 4 seasons north of the
border… Poor start in 1975 resulted in a demotion to the minors…Eventually went
to Japan and hit 40 and 37 home runs respectively…returned to states in 1979
playing for the Miami Amigos in the short lived AAA Inter-American League.
He was one of the few nonpitchers to throw left and bat right.
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