
San Francisco Giants.
Date of birth: November 21, 1954 Chicago, IL
High School: Senn HS (Chicago, IL)
College: Harry S Truman College (Chicago, IL), Northeastern Illinois University (Chicago, IL)
First Impression; School photo. He hopes that his mom gave him the best flavor juice box today.
Career stats player: Alan played 31 games over his career spanning 4 seasons with 3 franchises. He would start the year of this card, with 1980 stats and he started 13 games for the Giants and went 4-6. In 1981 he was a September call up. He was then released and went home to Chicago to log 4 innings for the Cubs. He was out of baseball for two years and then pitched 13 innings for the Royals in 1986. His career record was 5-9.
All Time Stat: He surrendered 5 homers in his career; Bob Horner, Chris Chambliss, Joe Ferguson, Bill Buckner and Kelly Gruber.
Fun Fact: Since his retirement, Hargesheimer has worked as a scout for several teams, including the Detroit Tigers, Colorado Rockies and San Diego Padres. As of 2018, Hargesheimer is the Director of International Scouting for the Nippon-Ham Fighters of the Japanese Pacific League and a professional scout for MLB’s Texas Rangers.*
Ever a Future Star? This was his only card.
Rookie or final card? Both.
Hall of Fame? Number retired? No
Links to stories including Alan Hargesheimer.
*wikipedia