Pinch-hitter Steve Braun is shown here at the old Comiskey Park on a dark looking day. Drafted by the Twins Braun was a 3B, 2B, OF and occasional SS. An average fielder he was a lefty with modest power but always with a good average. He suffered the fate of the good but not great player when he was taken in the Expansion Draft by the Seattle Mariners and in 78 was traded to the Royals. With Kansas City he was mostly a reserver but he made enough of an impression of manager Whitey Herzog that after a brief stay in Toronto he was signed by Herzog's new team the Cardinals in 1981. Spending the last five years of his career there he was again mostly a sub but in 1982 he did pick up a ring when the Cards beat the Brewers in the World Series.
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