Terrible Card Tuesday: 1966 Mel Queen

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A timely Terrible Card this week.  I’ve been playing my 1966 replay a bit over the holidays.  Tonight, the Cincinnati Reds defeated the Pittsburgh Pirates in the bottom of the ninth on three straight hits from unlikely hitters… Mel Queen, Art Shamsky and Jimmie Coker. 

Mel Queen was a bit of an anomaly.  He came up as an outfielder in 1964.  Around 1966, he started a transition to become a pitcher. By 1967, he went 14-8 with a 2.76 and his days as an outfielder were behind him.  As you can see, the Reds weren’t getting much from his bat anyway. 

Split G PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB BB SO BA OBP SLG
1966 Totals 56 69 55 4 7 1 0 0 5 0 10 12 .127 .250 .145
Provided by Baseball-Reference.com: View Original Table
Generated 12/29/2015.

 

With only one double, Queen was struggling to get his one zero.  Reds manager Don Heffner is doing his best to give him a chance in the lineup. 

Ugly numbers:  11-8, 55-14, 51-40

Give it up, Coach.  Mel was just lucky that Pete Mikkelsen, a BY, was pitching and I rolled a 44-9.  Put him on the mound.   

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.

2 Comments:

  1. Hiya Tom!

    Mel…Art….Jimmie. ..That’s akin to winning the POWERBALL!…Amazing!

    Happy New Year, Guys!

  2. In my ’65 replay I called Coker “Jimmy Cokehead” (of course.) Mel Queen was on my ’65 Reds–they won the World Series over the Twins–but I can’t recall if he did anything at all. I know he wasn’t very good.

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