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1971 Topps Rookie Stars · Oakland Athletics

Jim Driscoll

Ten hits. One home run. Thirty-six games across two seasons and two cities. By the sport's cold ledger he is a footnote to footnotes — and that is exactly why this story is worth your time. The game does not run on its superstars. It runs on the men underneath them, and Jim Driscoll spent fifty years being one of them: a railroad man's son who got Fenway Park as a corner lot, stepped off a bus into Jim Crow Georgia at eighteen, waited eight years for one call, and then spent three decades on dark backfields looking for somebody else's dream.

BornMay 14, 1944 · Medford, MA
FamilySecond of nine children
MLB debutJune 17, 1970 · Oakland A's
Signed1962 · Milwaukee Braves