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Buzz Clarkson
James Buster Clarkson enjoyed a long career spread among the Negro Leagues and the Mexican League with a big league cameo for the Boston Braves. He is listed as "Buzz Clarkson", but all Negro League, Mexican League and most minor league sources (except one) list him as Bus Clarkson, more fitting given his middle name.
Across his NeL, Mexican and MLB service, he amassed 3,668 plate appearances, 1018 hits, and 149 home runs based on available records in bRef. 1952 witnessed Clarkson finally make it to the majors, at the ripe old age of 37 (according to baseball-reference, 34 according to the site of the Negro League Baseball Players Association and the Mexican League Encyclopedia, which list his birthday). The Braves gave him all of 25 at-bats to show his stuff and, when he only cracked 5 singles, they decided that he had had his shot. Clarkson may have been able to contributed to the Braves, even at his advanced age, with the club falling short to New York's Dodgers and Giants. He was returned to Milwaukee and continued to dominate at AAA.
There was no facegen for him in the pack so made this one. The in-game weight adds some heaviness regardless of how much I tend to the fg.
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