Earl Battey, PSA 8, AL All-Star, Won Gold Glove Award, Twins Hall of Fame,

Description: LOW PSA POP ReportOnly (8) PSA 9's This 1962 Topps baseball trading card features Earl Battey, he played in Major League Baseball as a catcher from 1955 to 1967, most prominently for the Minnesota Twins where he was a five-time All-Star player and was an integral member of the 1965 American League pennant-winning team. He was recognized as one of the top catchers in the American League by winning three consecutive Gold Glove Awards between 1960 and 1962. He was inducted into the Minnesota Twins Hall of Fame in 2004. In a 13-year major league career, Battey played in 1,141 games, accumulating 969 hits in 3,586 at bats for a .270 career batting average along with 104 home runs and 449 RBIs. He led the American League four times in assists and putouts, three times in baserunners caught stealing and twice in caught stealing percentage, with a career fielding percentage of .990. A five-time All-Star, Battey won three Gold Glove Awards. Over his career, he threw out 43.44% of the base runners who tried to steal a base on him, 15th on the all-time list. In 1961, the reigning American League stolen base champion, Luis Aparicio, rated Battey as the toughest catcher on which to attempt a stolen base. Battey played more games at catcher than any other player in Twins history (831). He was named to the Twins' 40th anniversary team in 2000. Battey was one of the first Major League players to wear an earflap on his batting helmet in 1961 after twice suffering broken cheekbones when hit by pitches. After his playing career, fulfilling a promise he had made to his mother, Battey enrolled at Bethune-Cookman University in 1980. Taking 34 credits a semester, he finished his undergraduate degree in Education in 2½ years, while coaching the men's basketball team, and was accorded the distinction of Summa Cum Laude honors. After graduating from Bethune-Cookman, he became a high school teacher and baseball coach in Ocala, Florida.

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