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Carney Lansford
When baseball fans reflect on the great Oakland Athletics teams from the late 1980s to the early 1990s, there is a lot to recall. Three straight pennants (1988-1990) and one world championship (1989) is a good start.
Teams do not put together those types of seasons without a solid core of players. A starting rotation led by Dave Stewart, Bob Welch, Mike Moore, and Storm Davis. A closer converted from starting who won the American League Most Valuable Player and Cy Young awards in the same season (1992), Dennis Eckersley. Maybe what comes to mind are the tremendous clouts of the “Bash Brothers,” Mark McGwire and Jose Canseco. Still others might enjoy the memory of Rickey Henderson stealing yet another base on his way to becoming the all-time stolen base king in 1991. One of the constants on those powerful Oakland clubs was third baseman Carney Lansford. In 10 years with the A’s (1983–1992) Lansford batted .288. In the field, Lansford led AL third baseman in fielding for three seasons (1987, 1988, 1990). Every successful baseball team has them: the quiet, steady professional who goes about his job with little flash and is not noticed until he is no longer there.
Lansford retired after the 1992 season. He went into coaching, passing his intimate knowledge of hitting opposing pitchers on to younger players. That description is Carney Lansford in a nutshell: Competitive, professional, knowledgeable. - SABR
I was looking for facegens I'd already done to post tonight and I think this one while, again, may be only an incremental change (no missing or undead facegen here), I still prefer it to the default one.
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