Rightfielder sixto lezcano and first baseman cecil cooper display the american league 1979 gold glove awards given to them. Cooper is a candidate to platoon with matt joyce in right field once the regular season begins, joe frisaro of reports the 29yearold is. Total zone rating and initial framework for wins above replacement calculations provided by sean smith. Shop for authentic autographed cecil cooper cards, including authentic handsigned cecil cooper cards from mlb greats. July 9 the usa baseball team defeats the world team 76 in the allstar futures game at marlins park in miami, florida. The 1978 milwaukee brewers season involved the brewers finishing third in the american.
My wife worked in a downtown law office, and had t drop off some documents at the hennepin county courthouse, and when walking back across downtown in the climate controlled skyway system, she bumped into a giant roadblock of puckett, his lawyers, and a. Facebook gives people the power to share and makes the world more open and connected. Cecil cooper made his major league debut on 09081971 with the boston red sox. Cecil cooper born december 20, 1949 is a former first baseman in major league baseball and the former manager of the houston astros. The statistics used were obtained free of charge from the baseball databank. Carolyn cooper is a consultant on culture and development. Autographed cecil cooper cards authentic mlb signed. Cecil cooper world series stats by baseball almanac. Birmingham barons activated rhp matt cooper from the temporarily inactive list. Cecil grant fielder is a former professional baseball player in major league baseball mlb. Included on the chart are links to the players biography, the years he played, an autographed baseball card notation yyes and a hof hall of fame mark yyes. His passing comes just over a week after he was conferred with jamaicas fifth. He lent his name to and was a minority owner of a local car dealership, bill buckner motors in emmett, which was in business from 2006 to 2008. The cecil cooper league championship series stats seen below include his league championship series yearbyyear hitting stats, league championship series fielding stats, and league championship series pitching stats where applicable.
His biographical data, yearbyyear hitting stats, fielding stats, pitching stats where applicable, career totals, uniform numbers. George bretts 1980 season was simply amazing, but cecil cooper put up numbers that likely would have won him the mvp in any other year. Drafted by the boston red sox in the 6th round of the 1968 mlb june amateur draft from brenham hs brenham, tx. His uncle, cecil cooper, was a former firstbaseman for the milwaukee brewers and boston red sox during 19711987.
Cecil cooper was born on tuesday, december 20, 1949, in brenham, texas. Mlb players in the record books for all the wrong reasons. From 1971 through 1987, cooper played for the boston red sox 197176 and milwaukee brewers 197787. Cooper looks rather unorthodox on his follow through. Official twitter page of the njcaa dii cecil college seahawks baseball team. Well regarded, expressive, realist painter and retired educator cecil cooper recently unveiled milestonececil cooper at 70 an exhibition featuring works from his collection from 1948 to 2016 at the olympia gallery in. He played in major league baseball, primarily for the detroit tigers as a first baseman in the 1930s and 1940s. Cecil cooper society for american baseball research. They will handle all our social media going forward and. This page lists every known baseball award won by cecil cooper in chronological order. Cooper was traded to the brewers for george boomer scott, an eighttime gold glovewinning first baseman who was the american league home run and runsbattedin. Baseball notebook cecil cooper fired by astros the.
Lude coached maines baseball team in 1950 and 1951 before moving on to. The book is a major contribution to the general theory of strategy. Cardinals reliever brett cecil left wednesdays spring training game after injuring his hamstring while covering first base, anne rogers of. All professional baseball statistics for cecil cooper. A baseball heroes ii set with an additional 117 retired players was produced in 2017, using the same rating methodology, effectively doubling the number of additional players available. The player of the month award is a major league baseball award named by each league every month of the regular season. Once described by baseball digest as the rodney dangerfield of baseball, cecil cooper was a great player who didnt get the respect he deserved. The transaction and player splits data used here was obtained free of charge from. White sox cf rudy law, c carlton fisk and 2b julio cruz, as well as milwaukee dh cecil cooper each had 11 at bats in the game. Year age agedif tm lg lev aff g pa ab r h 2b 3b hr rbi sb cs bb so ba obp slg. He then singles in the eighth off brett cecil for his 3,054th career hit, surpassing panama native rod carew for the most hits in mlb history for a foreignborn player.
Brent honeywell earned the most valuable player honors. Cooper moon class of 2017 filer high school, filer, idaho primary position catcher secondary position 3rd base height 59 weight 170 bats right throws right high school gpa 4. Since the first election in 1936, the question of who should be included in the hall has been the source of great delight and debate. To connect with cecil college baseball, join facebook today.
Featuring a memorable psychedelic design, carlton fisk is the top rookie. I was still living in minneapolis when all that stuff started hitting the news. Jerry augustine sal bando cecil cooper andy etchebarren larry hisle sixto. Cecil cooper baseball cards, topps, fleer, upper deck. Cooper moon class of 2017 baseball recruiting video. The lone star series also known as the silver boot series is a major league baseball mlb rivalry featuring texas two major league franchises, the houston astros and texas rangers. Posts about cecil cooper written by roberto angotti. Cecil cooper had a down year for him in 1984, batting below. Som players who purchased all three sets would have close to 500 hall of famers and alltime greats to play around with. The national league started recognizing the award on june 4, 1958. The book offers a uniquely comprehensive analysis of the different facets of modern strategy. National league president warren giles conducted a poll of baseball writers in each major league city and awarded the winner an engraved desk set. A baseball card checklist for cecil cooper that includes every baseball card in our baseball card database. Kingston, jamaica renowned artist, musician and art educator cecil harvey cooper died this morning.
The roberto clemente award is given annually to a player who demonstrates the values clemente displayed in his commitment to community and understanding the value of helping others. Cecil cooper finished with a 171170 record with the houston astros in his first majorleague managerial job. Baseball almanac is pleased to present all the cecil cooper books currently listed on the leading providing of online cecil cooper books. Baseball almanac, the baseball cube, fangraphs and list his career total at 1,051. Join facebook to connect with cecil cooper and others you may know. Cecil cooper division series stats by baseball almanac. Baseball almanac is pleased to present a comprehensive list of every major league player whose last name falls between the names above. After buckner retired from baseball, he moved his family to idaho where he invested in real estate in the boise area. Baseball digest june 1981 cecil cooper of milwaukee brewers baseball digest on.
This cecil cooper baseball card checklist includes every known baseball card that cecil cooper has appeared on, in chronological order. This cecil cooper autographed major league baseball signed baseball baseballs comes with a certificate of authenticity and tamperevident hologram. Cecil celester cooper born december 20, 1949, nicknamed coop, is a former first baseman in major league baseball and the former manager of the houston astros. Cooper was 21 years old when he broke into the big leagues on september 8, 1971, with the boston red sox. Bryce harperled washington nationals on that fateful day in 2017. The national baseball hall of fame and museum in cooperstown, ny, honors those elected and immortalizes them with bronze plaques. Did you know that in the cecil cooper miscellaneous world series items of interest section seen above you can click the stats link under the world series label and a truly comprehensive history of that world series will appear on your screen. Milwaukee brewers uniform numbers baseball almanac. Cecil cooper autographed signed major league baseball. Click the award name and up comes a comprehensive history of that award along with every winner of that particular baseball award. Cooper baseball is still holding their gertens spring flowerplant fundraiser. Cecil cooper league championship series stats by baseball. To continue your support follow cecil college athletics. Cecil cooper has as many batting stances as times at bat.
Visiting boston scores two runs in the top of the inning to tie brewers at 5 apiece. Get the latest updated stats for milwaukee brewers designated hitter cecil cooper on. Baseball park espn baseball baseball players detroit sports detroit tigers baseball cardinals baseball st louis cardinals baseball almanac better. Baseball digest june 1981 cecil cooper of milwaukee. A milwaukee brewers uniform numbers list by baseball almanac which includes every single uniform number ever worn by every single milwaukee brewers player in history. The cecil cooper division series stats seen below include his division series yearbyyear hitting stats, division series fielding stats, and division series pitching stats where applicable. Sixto lezcano society for american baseball research. But thats because cooper featured an odd, open batting stance, which was modeled after rod carews. Win expectancy, run expectancy, and leverage index calculations provided by tom tango of, and coauthor of the book.
Give thanks for all the tomorrows of cecil coopers unfinished legacy. Cecil cooper trades and transactions by baseball almanac. Cecil cooper was an allstar, goldglovewinning first baseman who appeared in two world series with two different teams. 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. The biggest and best youth recreational baseball league in south broward. Defensive regression analysis data used here was obtained with permission from michael humphreys, author of wizardry. The cecil cooper page is available to be sponsored.
If you have not picked up your hard copy forms there are electronic forms under the. The lefthanded first baseman spent his majorleague years with boston and milwaukee from 1971 to 1987, appearing in two world. Being able to grow up in a baseball family allowed him to hang out with major league players from whom he gathered valuable information about hitting and fielding. The first book that i can remember reading on my own as a child was. While brett, and some of his teammates, were complaining about all the attention he was getting, cooper was getting frustrated by the lack of attention he was getting.
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