NOT REALLY MISSING IN ACTION- 1976 KEN BERRY

Here’s a 1976 “not so missing” career-capper for former Gold-Glove centerfielder Ken Berry, who wrapped up a nice 14-year Major League career in 1975 with the Cleveland Indians:

Berry appeared in 25 games for the Tribe during his last taste of Big League ball, batting an even .200 with eight hits over 40 at-bats, scoring six runs with one run batted in.
He twice was awarded a Gold Glove for his work in the outfield, in 1970 during his final season with the Chicago White Sox, the team he came up with in 1962, and again in 1972 in his second season with the California Angels, for whom he played between 1971 and 1973.
He’d spend the 1974 season with the Milwaukee Brewers, where he hit .240 over 98 games, before that last year with the Indians.
By the time he retired, he finished with a .255 batting average, with 1053 hits over 4136 at-bats in 1384 games, with 422 runs scored and 343 runs batted in, and an All-Star nod back in 1967.

RANDOM QUICKIE: KEN BERRY AND HIS 1970 CARD (#239)

Ok, so here's a quick post and it deals with card #239 from the 1970 Topps set: Ken Berry.

While I am a HUGE fan of those powder blue Chicago White Sox uniforms, I have to laugh at the photo Topps went with when it came to Berry's card.

Take a look:

First off you have that arm just hogging up the left side of the card, coming out of nowhere. Hilarious!

Then you have the subject himself.

Berry is caught in what seems to be mid-stretch, looking off into the distance (a bird? A plane?), oblivious to the fact that he is being photographed.

I'm sure if he knew this was for his Topps card, a card many would be gawking at, he would have struck a pose, or at the very least looked AT the man with the camera. No?

I DO love his sideburns though. Tame, but still a fashion-forward thing to do for a baseball player in 1969…

A two-time Gold Glove outfielder, (in 1970 while with the Sox and 1972 as an Angel), Berry had a decent 14-year career between 1962 and 1975, playing for the White Sox, Angels, Brewers and Indians