The card calls Milt a SS, but he actually split 100 games almost evenly with 3B and even played 8 games at 2B. Two different stints at the big-league level yielded a .184 average and 31 OPS+, so let's assume he knew how to turn a double play.
Baseball-Reference.com contains a vast quantity of info, from stats to oh-so-many-more-stats. Near the bottom of each player page sit Transactions, a log of known movements between teams. While fairly regulated now, plenty of mystery swaps happened in earlier years.
- Before 1974 Season: Sent from the Houston Astros to the Los Angeles Dodgers in an unknown transaction.
- Before 1975 Season: Sent from the Los Angeles Dodgers to Reynosa (Mexican) in an unknown transaction.
- Before 1976 Season: Sent from Reynosa (Mexican) to the Kansas City Royals in an unknown transaction.
- Before 1977 Season: Sent from the Kansas City Royals to the Oakland Athletics in an unknown transaction.
As the movie line goes, "there are 1000 stories in the naked city." It seems Milt Ramirez was involved with at least 4 of them. (Player page at B-R.com.)
The Missions set checklist includes several future MLBers. (Milt was both a past and future big-leaguer; after two years with St. Louis in 1970-71, he got a call back to the A's for 1979, his final season.)
- Team Photo CL
- Rene Lachemann
- Blue Moon Odom
- Derek Bryant
- Milt Ramirez
- Mark Williams
- Jim Tyrone
- Greg Sinatro
- Charlie Beamon
- Tim Hosley
- Denny Haines
- Mike Weathers
- Don Hopkins
- Bob Lacey
- Craig Mitchell
- Randy Boyd
- Denny Walling
- Randy Scarberry
- Brian Kingman
- Ron Bell
- Randy Taylor
- Jimmy Sexton
- Brian Abraham
- Dave Johnson
- Paul Mitchell
Value: Milt came in a package from MrMopar! Check out my write-up on this gift.
Fakes / reprints: Doubt folks would try to fake non-star minor leaguers and haven't seen any in the market.
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