Bert Campaneris
Bert Campaneris
Dagoberto Campaneris Blanco, nicknamed 'Bert' or 'Campy', is a Cuban American former professional baseball player. He played in Major League Baseball as a shortstop for four American League teams, primarily the Kansas City and Oakland Athletics. One of the mainstays of the Athletics' championship teams of 1972 to 1974, he holds the A's franchise records for career games played, hitsand at bats. He led the AL in stolen bases six times from 1965 to 1972 and retired with the seventh...
NationalityCuban
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth9 March 1942
CountryCuba
Well, I wanted to play twenty years in the major leagues. I never made it twenty though. I played nineteen.
Yes, I was in that game where George Brett hit that home run. Billy saw there was too much pine tar on the bat and he went to the umpire, the next thing we knew they were fighting about it.
I've been in eleven no-hitters you know.
So to get to play for the Yankees was really exciting. Really exciting.
Well, at the end of spring training it was they would take either Mattingly or me, and they took Mattingly. So you knew he was good.
In 83 I thought we were going to go all the way. We had Roy Smalley, and Steve King, and good players.
Yankee Stadium, and the Yankees are so famous for Mickey Mantle, Joe DiMaggio, Lou Gehrig, all of those guys.
I loved the opportunity to play for the Yankees, too.