Where is shooty babbitt

See all our posts in this series here. My collecting heyday was the s, after all, and none of the base cards were too hard to come by, whether they were superstars or bench players.

I bought new cards from to about , and generally accumulated thousands from each set. It was my only hobby, and my birthday and Christmas gift lists were filled with cardboard requests. I mean, how much better would the world be if pinch-runner exclusively Herb Washington had appeared on more than one card, even if it was a Topps beauty?

And, for me during the s, there was no bigger hobby gap than the dearth of Shooty Babitt pasteboards. He worked his way through the Oakland farm system over the course of four seasons and then made his Major League debut on April 9, He was just 22 years old.

Babitt appeared in 54 games during that strike-shortened season, and his. The fiery manager must have meant it, too, because Babitt opened the next season at Triple-A Tacoma before landing in the Montreal organization.

He never made it back to the Major Leagues, which was good news for Martin but bad news for baseball card collectors. Babitt went on to be a scout and broadcaster, and he made headlines a few years ago for his views on gay baseball players.

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