Colt .45's all rookie line up
Here it is from ASTROSDAILY. Harry Craft's all-rookie line up: The Colt .45s' All-Rookie Team Back row: Brock Davis (LF), Aaron Pointer (RF), Jimmy Wynn (CF) Middle row: Glenn Vaughan (3B), Sonny...
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Sonny Jackson's been a player that intrigued me. He was actually pretty good in '66 as a 21 year-old. Though he played 7 more seasons, 1966 was his best season by a comfortable margin. With Jackson at...
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One more thing about that photo - boy, a lot of black guys! By that I mean it's interesting in two ways. First, those guys were little more than babies when Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier....
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It's hard to guage how good a fielder he was. But, Sonny Jackson was very fast. Loel Passe would always say...."Sonny is so fast that one of these days he's going to field a ground ball and just run...
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Phenomenal Smith wrote: One more thing about that photo - boy, a lot of black guys! By that I mean it's interesting in two ways. First, those guys were little more than babies when Jackie Robinson...
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I think Jackson simply failed to adjust when opposing teams figured him out. He had speed and was a good fielder but he simply didn't hit well after the 1966 season and I presume it was from not being...
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