Friday, December 8, 2017

#254  Boots Day 

Its never a good sign when your baseball card shows you bunting….In addition  the name like Boots Day does not strike fear in the hearts of opposing pitchers…but in truth had a fair year as platoon player in 1971…career highs in production…but never progress more than than….played two and half more years in Montreal….Expos numbers were 8 home runs and respectable .258 BA…. formidable St Louis area high school pitcher….signed by Cardinals and made his MLB debut with the birds….irony got his first hit against the Expos when he was a Cub in 1970… traded to Montreal a few days later…. After his Montreal days, had a very long stint with the AAA Evansville Triplets.... not only a position player  but used his southpaw arm on the mound….Boots’ pitching line was 7-5 record in 87 games (plus 9 starts) and 4.33 ERA over 6 years….real name Charles Fredrick…was named Boots by a older sister when he was a baby…Returned to Evansville as a manager 1995.


2 comments:

  1. Boots Day was the leadoff batter for the visiting Expos in the first-ever game at Veterans Stadium in Philadelphia in April 1971.

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  2. Welcome to the Vet Boots! I the more researched Boots the more I realized he popular in Expo land for his work ethic. Kind of a poor man's Pete Rose.

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