Today’s Monster Card was suggested by Steve, someone who knows something about power. Steve won the 2014 APBA Convention Homerun Derby with the 1953 Ted Williams card. Congrats, Steve!
Steve passes on this 2000 Keith McDonald card (as viewed by BBW). McDonald was a short-lived catcher and pinch hitter for the St Louis Cardinals. While he only had seven at-bats in his first year, he made the most of them. All three of his hits were homeruns.
| Split | G | GS | PA | AB | R | H | 2B | 3B | HR | RBI | SB | BB | SO | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 Totals | 6 | 1 | 9 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 1 | .429 | .556 | 1.714 |
Keith gets a very normalized card for his three HR in 9 PA performance. He does get power numbers 1-1-1-1-1-5 but strangely, he get singles numbers 8-8-9-9, too.
Fun numbers: 55-1, 44-1, heck, 22-1 too.
McDonald only lasted one more year in the majors. He does have the honor of retiring with a slugging percentage of 1.333 albeit with just 9 at-bats.
Thanks Steve and congratulations again!
I’ve never even heard of this guy but it’s hard for me to believe that a guy who has three homers in just 9 ab’s wouldn’t get more than 9 ab’s in the majors….sabermetrics over common sense once again!!
(I don’t even want to look up his minor league stats though…don’t want to spoil the illusion.)
In my mind cards like this belong in Weird Wednesday or maybe a new category Freaky Friday for those with awesome numbers in a few at bats. Now the 1953 Ted Williams card belongs in Monster Monday. Just an opinion.
Hi Bob!
I actually linked above to the Monster Card article I did for 1953 Ted Williams.
Here’s the link again: http://www.apbablog.com/card-analysis/monster-card-monday-1953-ted-williams