Don kessinger phone, address, background info whitepages. The transaction and player splits data used here was obtained free of charge from. The latest don kessinger stats, video highlights, news and more from. He was drafted by the baltimore orioles in the 36th round of the 1989 amateur draft, and the reds purchased his contract in 1991. During his collegiate years, he earned allconference, allsec, and allamerica honors in both basketball and baseball for the rebels, and was initiated into the sigma nu fraternity. May 03, 20 hazewood is one of 50 former major leaguers that potter will visit during his next run of signings beginning september 30th that include a wide range of talents from hall of famer rollie fingers, perennial allstars del crandall, reggie smith, and don kessinger, to such curiosities as frank baker, rich coggins, johnny jeter, and ron woods. The statistics used were obtained free of charge from the baseball databank. Jul 09, 2018 for me, don kessinger was one of the guys who defined the era of the 1960s and 1970s in baseball a solid player with a reputation as being an even more solid character. He was a fourtime allstar and a gold glove award winner. Don kessinger trades and transactions by baseball almanac.
Baseball history unpacked, july 6 bleed cubbie blue. This article was published in the 2015 the national pastime on september 8, 1978, north side and south side fans finally found something they could agree on. Donald eulon kessinger was born on friday, july 17, 1942. Louis, missouri and its 86th season in the national league. In the first season after the national league was split into two divisions, the cubs finished with a record of 9270, 8. Donald eulon kessinger born july 17, 1942 in forrest city, arkansas is an american former professional baseball player and manager. Louis cardinals 19761977 and chicago white sox 19771979. Grae kessinger, just turned 18 and a senior on oxford high, already has committed to play at at ole miss but likely will have a huge decision to make next spring.
Run expectancy, and leverage index calculations provided by tom tango of, and coauthor of the book. Former chicago cubs allstar shortstop don kessinger to speak at 2017 c spire. He played in major league baseball mlb as a second baseman for the chicago cubs for nine seasons from 1965 to 1973, before ending his career with the san diego padres in 1975. A sixtime allstar, he was a lighthitting, defensive specialist who spent the majority of his career as the chicago. His biographical data, yearbyyear hitting stats, fielding stats, pitching stats where applicable, career totals, uniform numbers. Don kessinger new, 76 comments the next entry in the fan favorites series looks at a slick shortstop from the 60s and 70s. The white sox obliged by beating seattle, 32, as he handled seven chances flawlessly. Did you know that during the physical, if a team finds out that the player received during a trade is injured they may return the player to the originating team within ten days from the date the trade was made and void the entire contract.
Mar 17, 2012 chris potter has spent months on the road, traveling the country far and wide to have retired baseball players put their signatures on cherished baseball memorabilia for fellow collectors. Get your kindle here, or download a free kindle reading app. Don kessinger college stats college basketball at sports. Kessinger was 22 years old when he broke into the big leagues on september 7, 1964, with the chicago cubs. Don kessinger was born on july 17, 1942 in forrest city, arkansas, usa as donald eulon kessinger. View phone numbers, addresses, public records, background check reports and possible arrest records for don kessinger. It was the kind of game you dream about, but never think will happen to you. If so, then carolyn is olivia manning with more experience. Kessinger publishings legacy reprints publisher series. Jul 14, 2018 for me, don kessinger was one of the guys who defined the era of the 1960s and 1970s in baseball a solid player with a reputation as being an even more solid character.
During 1973, don kessinger s place in the batting order was 1st, 2nd or 8th. The season involved the cubs gaining renown as the most celebrated secondplace team in the history of baseball. I am not old enough to remember this era of cubs baseball but the book. Stats, negro league stats, nippon pro baseball stats, cuban national series stats, korean baseball stats, 2019 minor leagues, 2019 affiliates. Glenn beckert society for american baseball research. Donald eulon kessinger is an american former professional baseball player and manager. Don kessinger stats, game logs, splits, and much more. Chris potter, more than a friend to collectors baseball. The grandson of former ole miss allamerican shortstop and head coach don kessinger, who was also a sixtime allstar and twotime gold glove winner with the chicago cubs, grae kessinger has been a mainstay in the rebels lineup the last three years. Defensive regression analysis data used here was obtained with permission from michael humphreys, author of wizardry. Sponsor this page attach your namecompany to the don kessinger page and 1 help support the baseball cube 2 remove ads from this page for other visitors. A baseball card checklist for don kessinger that includes every baseball card in our baseball card database.
Louis cardinals season was the teams 96th season in st. Vin scullys call of the 9th inning of sandy koufaxs sept. Start reading the baseball maniacs almanac on your kindle in under a minute. Sherwin calls his book, the cubs and the kabbalist, a novel. Robert keith kessinger born february 19, 1967 is a former major league baseball player who played 11 games at shortstop for the cincinnati reds in 1993. Don kessinger has been with kessinger real estate for several years specializing in commercial, residential, and land sales. Don kessinger this article was written by steve dunn although he was overshadowed by four future hall of famers on the same team, shortstop don kessinger played an integral role on the pennantcontending chicago cub squads of the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Kessinger publishing publisher 23764 works 5,796 ebooks borrow publishing history this is a chart to show the when this publisher published books. Don kessinger every game played with complete stats, links to box scores and automated row summing for 1977. This don kessinger baseball card checklist includes every known baseball card that don kessinger has appeared on, in chronological order. Kessinger was a mainstay at shortstop, making six allstar teams and winning consecutive nl gold glove awards in 6970. The 1969 chicago cubs doug feldmann, don kessinger on. A sixtime allstar, he was a lighthitting, defensive specialist who spent the majority of his career as. Art is fundamental to the human experience, and just one art book can show you millions of dollars worth of old masters from around the world without the need to leave your couch. He won two gold gloves at shortstop, and he led all shortstops in putouts three times, assists four times, double plays four times, and fielding percentage.
Who you rootin foh ferriss trophy honors magnolia state. Don kessinger is he best shortstop in the majors baseball digest. Chris potter has spent months on the road, traveling the country far and wide to have retired baseball players put their signatures on cherished baseball memorabilia for fellow collectors. I was scanning a lot of donnies old pictures and scrap books and going back through the memories last fall, and wow we were blessed with a storied life, carolyn kessinger said. The don kessinger page is available to be sponsored. Professional baseball professional baseball professional baseball people professional baseball managers don kessinger professional baseball minor league baseball players born in arkansas.
After graduating from ole miss, the former twosport all american played 16 years of professional baseball. Kessinger publishing company publisher contact information. Baseball almanac major league player of the year award by the sporting. Ole miss standout grae kessinger named 2019 brooks wallace. Grae kessinger is the latest rebel to bring home a major positional award, being named the brooks wallace award winner in 2019, given annually to the top shortstop in college baseball. Click the award name and up comes a comprehensive history of that award along with every winner of that particular baseball. A sixtime allstar, he was a lighthitting, defensive specialist who spent the majority of his career as the chicago cubs. Prep all american grae kessinger has hall of fame genes.
Trivia 3 shortstop for the chicago cubs 19641975, st. Stats awards fabulous feats famous firsts hall of fame hitting charts legendary lists pitching charts record books rules scoring. The site is updated daily with information about every book, author, illustrator, and publisher in the childrens young adult book industry. He played in major league baseball as a shortstop from 1964 to 1979 for the chicago cubs, st.
Common knowledge publisher series kessinger publishings legacy reprints. Don kessinger and 3 related entities entities finder. A sixtime allstar, he was a lighthitting, defensive specialist who spent the majority of his career as the chicago cubs starting shortstop. This page lists every known baseball award won by don kessinger in chronological order.
He returned to oxford in 1990 and served as the baseball coach for the university of mississippi. Users browsing for nonfiction books in nonfiction usually look at. May 20, 2016 ferriss trophy honors magnolia states best baseball player. Those teams starred a quartet of baseball immortals in ernie banks, ferguson jenkins, ron santo, and billy williams. Don kessinger american professional baseball player. Photography books let you see the world as people like ansel adams and fstop fitzgerald see it. A four sport allstate and allamerica athlete for the forrest city high school mustangs, kessinger graduated high school in 1960 and went onto the university of mississippi. Don kessinger society for american baseball research. Glenn beckert had a goodbutnotgreat career for the goodbutnotgreat chicago cubs teams of the late 1960s and early 1970s. Illinois state book store illinois almanac facts about. Founded in 1997, has become a leading book price comparison site. Whitepages people search is the most trusted directory. According to baseball almanac, the alltime itphr record is held by jesse burkett 55, followed by sam crawford 51.
July 17, 1942 1942 07 17 age 69 forrest city, arkansas batted. And yet, he managed to make the allstar team six times, so people must have thought he was pretty talented. Jan 07, 2007 profile by bcb reader rlpete ask a group of 1960s and 1970s era cub fans what they remember about don kessinger and more than a few will likely say the same thing. Baseballs greatest maverick says that 51,556 people were in the park that day. Dating back to 19, kessinger still ranks first in games 1,602, hits 1,599 and runs 756 as a shortstop among all cubs players in that time period. Don also has two sons, kevin, who was signed by the cubs but never made the majors and keith, who got 27 ab for the reds in 1993. American baseball player, coach, manager biography. Feb 11, 2008 i thought it would be fun to see if we could get this off the ground. He just began writing his own name in the rebels record books. Kessinger also brought home three allamerican honors, including a firstteam nod from the college baseball foundation, becoming the rebels first firstteam all. Don kessinger allstar stats the don kessinger allstar stats seen below include his allstar yearbyyear hitting stats, allstar fielding stats, and allstar pitching stats where applicable. Glenn alfred beckert october 12, 1940 april 12, 2020 was an american professional baseball player.
The cardinals went 8379 during the season and finished third in the national league east, 18 games behind the philadelphia phillies vern rapp took over as the cardinals manager this year, after the twelveyear reign of their longtime manager red. The latest chris kessinger stats, video highlights, news and more from. Click the images to see the codition of the actual item you will receive. On september 8, 1978, don kessinger night drew 30,270 fans to chicagos comiskey park. The cards were individually inserted in specially marked boxes of kelloggs cereal, and were not made available to hobby dealers or collectors could not send away for the complete sets. Kessinger, with his wife and two sons present, received everything from two ponies to a trip to hawaii.
This was the second, and most scarce baseball card set issued by kelloggs. Houston the way don kessinger remembers it, his grandsons first word was ball. Louis cardinals to the chicago white sox for steve staniland minors. Thats not surprising when you consider grae kessinger grew up with a grandfather who played 16 years in the major leagues, an uncle who was a big leaguer and a father who was drafted by the cubs and played professional baseball. The 1969 chicago cubs season was the 98th season of the chicago cubs franchise, the 94th in the national league and the 54th at wrigley field. During his 11 years with the cubs, the former allamerican baseball and. Don kessinger baseball stats with batting stats, pitching stats and fielding stats, along with uniform numbers, salaries, quotes, career stats and biographical data presented by baseball almanac.
Don kessinger was born on friday, july 17, 1942, in forrest city, arkansas. This troop of nowgrizzled bears including claude passeau, hank wyse, alvin dark, don kessinger, joe niekro, pete lacock, and slugger hank sauer holds forth on the front office moves, grueling daygame scheduling and sometimes agonizing play of one of baseball s oldest, unluckiest yet most revered franchises. Click the award name and up comes a comprehensive history of that award along with every winner of that particular baseball award. Chicago cubs 1965 official presstvradio roster book. Will clark, rafael palmeiro, don kessinger ok, ive opened a can of worms and will never be able to name enough players. In his book, the bill james historical baseball abstract, baseball historian bill. So i was happy when he accepted my request for an interview while researching my upcoming ernie banks book shameless plugwatch for it march, 2019. Even the great baseball almanac, does not provide records of team lob records based on the number of runs scored.
Jacketflap connects you to the work of more than 200,000 authors, illustrators, publishers and other creators of books for children and young adults. Louis cardinals sent bobby hrapmann minors april 5, 1976 to the chicago cubs to complete the trade. Don kessinger ably manned shortstop for the chicago cubs for more than a decade from 1965 to 1975. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, he was considered one of the best shortstops in baseball. Dover books on history, political and social science. He played in major league baseball as a shortstop from to for the chicago cubs, st. Astros draft don kessingers grandson grae in second round. Ole miss head coach mike bianco recently called don kessinger the archie manning of ole miss baseball. Baseball almanac presents an unprecedented collection of quotes from and about. With good range and a strong arm, kessinger s trademark play was to backhand a ground ball deep in the hole, leap into the air, and without planting his. For me, don kessinger was one of the guys who defined the era of the 1960s and 1970s in baseball a solid player with a reputation as being an even more solid character. What started out as an innocent meeting with cy young award winner dean chance, has turned into a fulltime business for potter.
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