01-06-2025, 04:41 PM
Finished 2nd to Pete Rose for Rookie of the Year in 1963.
2x All-Star
Exceptionally low career strikeout ratio (382 strikeouts in 5,235 ABs)
Solid #1 and #2 hitter with .368 OBP.
His motto was "Some people give their bodies to science; I give mine to baseball,"
Once said to a reporter "Why would you hit me to face Willie Mays, Willie McCovey and Jim Ray Hart?"
Who am I?
2x All-Star
Exceptionally low career strikeout ratio (382 strikeouts in 5,235 ABs)
Solid #1 and #2 hitter with .368 OBP.
His motto was "Some people give their bodies to science; I give mine to baseball,"
Once said to a reporter "Why would you hit me to face Willie Mays, Willie McCovey and Jim Ray Hart?"
Who am I?
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