Rick Auerbach began his career in 1971 with Milwaukee two years after they took it over from the failed Seattle Pilots franchise. Appropriately, he ended it Seattle with the Mariners in 1981. I’d like to say he made a huge difference with either team but that just isn’t true. Rick batted .203 with the Brewers and an even lower .155 in 1981 with the M’s.
Rick Auerbach’s main purpose through his career was as a utility infielder. That he did well. While his main position was shortstop, he was called on to play second and third when the need arose. In his swan song for the Mariners, he went 12 for 84 with 3 doubles and a homer with one stolen base.
| Split | G | PA | AB | R | H | 2B | 3B | HR | RBI | SB | BB | SO | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1981 Totals | 38 | 96 | 84 | 12 | 13 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 15 | .155 | .200 | .226 |
Unlike yesterday’s Monster Card George Sisler who has 12 on base chances against an A pitcher, Auerbach suffers only four and two of them are 14s.
Ugly numbers: 33-8, 25-39, 51-22
Question for anyone out there… is Rick related to basketball legend Red Auerbach? I’m not finding anything but Rick did play basketball in college.
thanks to Howie Mooney for the suggestion!
That’s a really awful card, but I am impressed that the card in the photo is still on the sheet with the other xb’s.
I forgot how annoying it was to try and trim the card, and I never could round the corners off to make them match.
So thank you APBA for making the xc’s look like the other cards.
Wasn’t it Auerbach who had a killer card with something like six 1s around that time?