Showing posts with label Mark Whiten. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mark Whiten. Show all posts

Sunday, June 8, 2008

Cardinals from Times of Yore


Mark Whiten
Mark played for the Blue Jays, Indians (twice), Cardinals, Red Sox, Phillies, Braves, Mariners (the last 3 teams in 1996 alone), and the Yankees. In 11 seasons, he stepped to the plate 3,104 times in 939 games and sported a .259 career batting average.

His Cardinal claim to fame, similarly to Fernando Tatis, can be traced to one night's performance during a single game. On September 7, 1993, he hit four home runs and drove in 12 runs against the Cincinnati Reds in the second game of a doubleheader. He tied the all-time single-game records in both categories in the process.

Those four home runs represent 4% of his career total.