Reserve outfielder for Tigers, Yankees, and Expos....career varied from platoon to reserve player....never above that.....started in Pirates organization but sold for $500 to Detroit....the long time farmhand worked way up the Tiger system with solid but unspectacular far, system numbers....Finally got a chance with Tigers in 1969....played very little and was traded to NYY for a rapidly aging Tom Tresh....Woods could not get untracked in the Big Apple....hit .176 and inched up a .230 BA in the rest of 1969 and 1970 respectively....traded by Yankees early stages of 1971 for ex-Met icon Ron Swoboda....North of the border Woods hit .297 in part time work a personal best...Would remain an Expo for three more years.....clouts 10 home runs in 1972 with added work.... BA dropped to .254 however.....most prolific year was 1973 appearing in 135 games but BA suffered falling further to .230....relegated to being a very seldom used reserve in 1974 hit .205....let go by Montreal, plays two season across the Pacific Ocean in Japan....Avid chess player.
And then he went on to play guitar with the Rolling Stones. Very versatile!
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I was going to mention that but the Rolling Stone is Ron Wood, sans the "s". So I held back. I will be mentioning alike names in future posts. Thank you for writing, Jim.
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