Jose Canseco

April 8, 1986 Oakland, Ca

Minnesota Twins 3-2 Oakland Athletics

Twins RBI: Gary Gaetti, Mark Salas, Kent Hrbek

Oakland RBI: Dwayne Murphy, Tony Philips

Pitching: Frank Viola (Twins-W) Chris Codiroli (A's-L)

Jose Canseco played 29 games for the 1985 Oakland Athletics, achieving 29 hits in 96 at-bats, with 5 home runs. In his 1986 rookie season debut he had1 hit in 3 at-bats and 1 walk

Sep 23, 1989 Milwaukee, Wi

First player to achieve the 40/40 club

April 11, 1994 Arlington, Tx

While Horse artist proof (Ebay find)

Milwaukee Brewers 4-3 Texas Rangers

In his first home game for the Texas Rangers went 0-3, with 1 walk and 1 RBI

The Rangers would take the loss

Jose Canseco played for the Oakland Athletics (1985-1992, 1997) Texas Rangers (1992-1994) Boston Red Sox (1995-1996) Toronto Blue Jays (1999-2000) New York Yankees (2000) Chicago White Sox (2001)

Career Batting ave: .266; RBI: 1,407; HR: 462

• 6-time All-Star
• 2-time World Series Champion - 1989, 2000
• American League MVP - 1988
• American League Rookie of the Year - 1986
• 4-time Silver Slugger Award - 1988, 1990, 1991, 19998
• 2-time MLB Home Run Leader - 1988, 1991
• MLB RBI Leader - 1988

Jose Canseco was part of the St Vincent's 1989 series

Raul Mondesi

April 5, 1994 Los Angeles, Ca

Florida Marlins 3-4 LA Dodgers

Dodger Stadium

Marlins RBI: Kurt Abbott (2-HR), Jeff Conine (HR)

LAD RBI: Mike Piazza, Brett Butler, Jeff Treadway, Eric Karros

Marlins pitching: Charlie Hough (Start-6 innings) Jeremy Hernandez (L)

LAD pitching: Orel Hershiser (start-6 innings) Jim Gott (W)

Raul Mondesi, right field 0-4, rookie season

Mondesi appeared in 42 games in 1993 for the Dodgers

Batting ave .291, OPS .811, RBI - 10

He did not meet rookie eligibility for the 1993 season

Mondesi played 13 seasons for the LA Dodgers (1993-1999) Toronto Blue Jays (2000-2002)

New York Yankees (2002-2003) Arizona Diamondbacks (2003) Pittsburgh Pirates (2004)

Anaheim angels (2004) Atlanta Braves (2004)

• National League Rookie of the Year - 1994
• All-Star - 1995
• 2-time Gold Glove Award - 1995, 1997
• 2-time 30-30 club

Gabriel Electronics

 

Tiger Stadium - Detroit Tigers

Apr 20, 1992 Detroit, Mi

Tiger Stadium Anniversary

The Tigers were away on the stadium's anniversary

Baltimore Orioles 12-4 Detroit Tigers

Attendance 45,013 Camden Yards

Previously known as Navin Field and Briggs Stadium - tiger Stadium was located in the Corktown section of Detroit. It served as home field for the Detroit Tigers from 1912-1999. The NFL Detroit Lions played at the stadium from 1938-1974

Tigers owner Frank Navin built the stadium on the site of the Tigers previous field, Bennett Park. Opening day was April 20, 1912, the same day as Boston Red Sox's Fenway Park opened.

Coming home after a 4-3 road trip, the Tigers opened Navin Field against the Cleveland Naps with a 6-5 extra-inning victory. George Mullin took the victory pitching  a complete game, Vean Gregg took the complete game loss for the Naps. 

Cleveland RBIs: Terry Turner, Buddy Ryan - 2 earned runs

Tigers RBIs: Jim Delahanty (3), George Mullin, Ty Cobb - 5 earned runs

The final game at Tiger Stadium was played on September 27, 1999

Briggs Stadium postcard

Ricky Horton - St Louis Cardinals

 

December 3, 1984 Greenville, Il

Benefit for the American Cancer Society

Ebay find: looks like a photo-copied cachet for a benefit fund raiser for the American Cancer Society, featuring St Louis Cardinals' Ricky Horton

Horton was a pitcher with the St Louis Cardinals (1984-1987, 1989-1990) Chicago White Sox (1988) Los Angeles Dodgers (1988-1989). 1984 won a career high 9 games as a rookie. Appeared in the 1985 and 1987 World Series  with the Cardinals and the 1988 World Series with the Championship Dodgers

Achieved his first major league hit off Nolan Ryan on May 21, 1984

Win-Loss records: 32-27, ERA 3.76, Strikeouts 319

Cy Young Award - 1996

Nov 12, 1996 New York, NY

Cy Young Award

Pat Hentgen, Toronto Blue Jays - American League

20 wins - 10 losses, 3.22 ERA, 265.2 innings pitched, 177 strikeouts, 94 walks

John Smoltz - Atlanta Braves - National League

24 wins - 8 losses, 2.94 ERA, 253.2 innings pitched, 276 strikeouts, 55 walks

American League runner-ups:

Andy Pettite - New York Yankees

Mariano Rivera - New York Yankees

National League runner-ups:

Kevin Brown - Florida Marlins

Andy Benes - StLouis Cardinals

Ernie Banks - In Memoriam

January 23, 2015 Chicago, IL

Bevil cachet

Born: January 31, 1931 Dallas, Tx

Died: January 23, 2015 Chicago, Il

Kansas City Monarchs (1951, 1953)

Chicago Cubs (1953-1971)

.274 bating average

2,583 hits

1,636 RBI

512 home runs

14-time All-Star

2-time NL MVP (1958, 1959)

Gold Glove Award (1960)

2-time NL Home Run Leader (1958, 1960)

2-time NL RBI Leader (1958, 1959)

National Baseball Hall of Fame (1977)

Chicago Cubs #14 jersey retired (1982)

Stamp Show - APEX : Aurora, Co