Show Sports j thoughts Many times a baseball player will have his first great year at bat or on the mound and everyone expects more of the same for the future However sometimes that first great year turns out to be the only amazing season for the player as he is never able to equal or surpass that outstanding year at the plate or on the mound Fred Beebe had a fine rookie year in 1906 for the Chicago Chico Cubs and the St St. Louis Cardinals Car Car- In 1906 he posted a pitching mark of 16 wins and 10 losses The next year 1907 Beebe hit the bottom of the pitching world with a a 7 20 mark for the Cardinals Beebe was inthe Inthe in inthe the under department In 1908 with a 5 13 record In 1909 his pitching mark markwas was near the bottom again as he posted a 1521 1521 1521 15 21 record BEEBE WAS traded to the Cincinnati Reds in 1910 but the change of location was not much of a factor as he had a record of 1214 14 for that season In 1911 he was acquired by the Philadelphia Phillies and his record for that year was 3 Beebe was was was' absent from baseball from 1912 to 1915 In 1916 he returned to baseball and achieved a a pitching mark of 5 and 3 Beebe finally went over in 1916 but that wasn't enough to him to the baseball world of 1917 Manny Jimenez of the Kansas City Athletics had an outstanding outstanding outstanding out out- standing rookie year yeat in 1962 driving in 69 runs and batting in games It seemed that Jimenez was destined for stardom However that was not notto notto notto to be the case During the year 1963 he competed in only 60 contests and hit for an an average of His runs-batted-in runs total dropped from 69 to 15 The year of 1964 was more of the same for Jimenez His batting average dropped to in 1964 and his batt batted in in d-in total increased to 38 Jimenez appeared in only 13 games in 1966 and his batting mark for that year was was out of the majors in 1965 KANSAS CITY traded Jimenez to the Pi Pittsburgh Pir Pirates tes' tes in in and a a small improvement was gained by the baseball player as he batted for foran foran foran an average of in 50 contests Jimenez runs batted total for 1967 was ten He overcame some of his problems in 1968 as he batted for the Pirates The mark markwas markwas markwas was better than his average in 1962 for Kansas City However in 1968 he drove in only 11 runs runs whereas in 1962 he had 69 runs batted Although the year 1968 was an improvement improvement im im- im provement for Jimenez it was still below his overall performance per per- performance in 1962 In 1969 Jimenez competed in six games for the Chicago Cubs He batted for the Cubs inthe in inthe inthe the final six games of his major league career He started out with high hopes after his fine rookie year in 1962 but by the time 1969 rolled around he wasn't even hitting his own w weight ight In 1969 he batted and his weight was pounds A hitter or pitcher a a will start off his career with a bang and his team has high hopes but after that bright first year the rest of his baseball career is a dud |