Terrible Card Tuesday: 1966 Alex Johnson

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I like anomalies and strangeness.  I guess it’s why I do things like Terrible Tuesday and Weird Wednesday.  Cards like today’s 1966 Alex Johnson fit in well.  I’ve been playing Johnson in my 1966 replay this whole time without realizing he was the same Alex Johnson who won the batting crown for the Angels in 1970.   I mean Johnson is a common name. 

For the Cardinals in 1966, Johnson hit just .186 with two homers in 86 at-bats in real life.  I’m using actual lineups in my replay and the Cardinals still haven’t realized that he’s not the outfielder they need in point that I’m at.  It’s May 6th in my replay and he’s still starting a good majority of the games.  He’s living up to his real life stats though.  He has the lowest batting average among qualifiers with a .108 mark in my replay. 

Split G PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB BB SO BA OBP SLG
1966 Totals 25 91 86 7 16 0 1 2 6 1 5 18 .186 .231 .279
Provided by Baseball-Reference.com: View Original Table
Generated 1/19/2016.

 

Johnson is fast and has a 15-10.  And if you roll a zero, look out!  But that’s the thing.  He only has the one 66-0. 

Ugly numbers:  51-40, 33-8, 11-7

Johnson’s number are sure to improve in a couple of years. 

If you’re curious, here are the lowest BA among qualifiers in my 1966 replay (May 6).

Player Team PA Lowest AVG
Johnson, Alex StL 79 .108
Nicholson, Dave Hou 45 .114
Gentile, Jim Hou 68 .115
Williams, Billy Chi 86 .154
White, Bill Phi 71 .157
Hundley, Randy Chi 80 .162
Brown, Ollie SF 43 .167
McMillan, Roy NYM 55 .174
Pinson, Vada Cin 80 .178
Woodward Atl 57 .180

Thomas Nelshoppen

I am an IT consultant by day and an APBA media mogul by night. My passions are baseball (specifically Illini baseball), photography and of course, APBA. I have been fortunate to be part of the basic game Illowa APBA League since 1980 as well as the BBW Boys of Summer APBA League since 2014. I am slogging through a 1966 NL replay and hope to finish before I die.

4 Comments:

  1. The fact that Johnson has no sixes in the second column is pretty unusual. But any card based on a player with only 91 plate appearances is likely to be odd.

    The 1966 Al Weis card should be pretty atrocious. He has 213 plate appearances and hit .155 for a White Sox team that had great pitching but nothing else.

  2. Some pretty good names among the bottom ten hitters . . . Billy Williams, Bill White, Vada Pinson . . .

  3. Yep, old AJ really stank for a while before he picked up. As i recall, he had a rep as being trouble, though i can’t recall exactly why.

    In my 1967 AL replay, I have a player like this–the Yankees’ Bill Robinson, who stinks but would later be a good hitter in the NL.

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