Who is the man: Jose Pena appeared in 29 games in relief in his first season with the Dodgers in 1970. He was picked up from the Reds in the Rule V draft.
Can ya dig it: I should have scanned the Pena card that's in my Dodgers collection. This one is miscut two different ways.
Right on: I like the batting cage in the distance.
You see that cat Pena is a bad mother: After his major league career ended in the early 1970s, Pena pitched the rest of the decade in Mexico. He won more than 200 games in Mexico and is among the top pitchers in career victories in the Mexican League.
Shut your mouth: Pena won 35 games in 1966, 19 in the Mexican League and 16 in winter ball.
No one understands him but his woman: If you can believe wikipedia, Pena was married for a time to Barbara Enright, who was the first woman to be inducted into the World Series Poker Hall of Fame. (She was the first woman to make the WSOP's final table in 1995). Enright, who grew up in southern California and was a hairdresser for celebrities in the early 1970s, was definitely married to a Dodgers pitcher then, but only wiki names the pitcher as Pena.
(My observation on the back): The write-up causes me to wonder what he did in his last 17 outings in 1970 to come up with that 4.42 ERA.
She's still the only woman to have made a main event final table. And this site https://www.familytreenow.com/records/marriage/pena/jose confirms that there is a record of a marriage between a man named Jose Pena and a woman named Barbara Enright in Las Vegas in 1972.
ReplyDeleteBaseball Reference shows his first 12 appearances of the year as 19.1 innings 2 ER (3 R) for a 0.93 ERA. He allowed 9 hits 9 walks, and had 12 Ks.
ReplyDeleteOver his last 17 games he had 37.2 IP and 26 ER (29 R) for a 6.21 ERA. He allowed 42 hits, 20 walks, and only 19 Ks.