Jose Tartabull

Jose Tartabull

Born:	Sunday Nov 27 1938
Birthplace:	Cienfuegos, Cuba
Hometown:
Height:	5' 11"
Weight:	165 lbs
Bats:	Left
Throws:	Left
Drafted:	1958: Amateur Free Agent by the San Francisco Giants
College:
High School:
Other Teams:	Kansas City A's 1962-1966 Oakland Athletics 1969-1970
Years with Boston:	1966 - 1968

Overall Career

In 9 seasons in the ML, Tartabull appeared in 749 games with a career total BA of .261, a OBP of .303, and SLG of .320

Without question, Tartabull's greatest "moment in the sun" came on August 27, 1967 in a critical game between the Red Sox and White Sox. Tartabull made an incredible throw from RF to Elston Howard at the plate to nail Ken Berry trying to score. The game was pivotal in the Red Sox drive to the pennant.
- Years later (in 2001 to be exact), that famous throw became a "character" of sorts in a young adults, fiction novel entitled "Tartabull's Throw" written by Henry Garfield.
April 29, 1967: Pinch hitting for Mike Andrews in the bottom of the 15th, Jose singles up the middle, scoring Tony Conigliaro from 3rd as the Sox beat the Kansas City A's, 11-10. For the first time in four years they are in 1st place after 10 games.

Tartabull played in all seven games of the 1967 World Series (leading off and playing RF in three of them).

Jose Tartabull is the father of Danny Tartabull who played 14 years in the majors with the Seattle Mariners, Kansas City Royals, New York Yankees, Oakland Athletics, Chicago White Sox, and Philadelphia Phillies. Danny hit as many home runs in his first 10 games in the majors as his dad did in his whole career (2)

Before 1958 Season: Signed by the San Francisco Giants as an amateur free agent.
December 15, 1961: Traded by the San Francisco Giants to the Kansas City Athletics for Joe Pignatano.
June 13, 1966: Traded by the Kansas City Athletics with Rollie Sheldon and John Wyatt to the Boston Red Sox for Jim Gosger, Ken Sanders, and Guido Grilli.
May 7, 1969: Purchased by the Oakland Athletics from the Boston Red Sox.