(2) HARRY BRIGHT INDEX CARD SIGNED 1960 WS PITT PIRATES PSA/DNA CERT 1929-2000

Description: (2) HARRY BRIGHT INDEX CARD SIGNED 1963 NY YANKEES PSA/DNA CERTIFIED 1929-2000 Harry James Bright (September 22, 1929 – March 13, 2000) was an American first baseman, third baseman, utilityman and scout in MLB, and a longtime player and manager in minor league baseball. Born in Kansas City, Missouri, Bright stood 6 feet (1.8 m) tall, weighed 190 pounds (86 kg), and threw and batted right-handed.Bright's first Major League trials came with the Pittsburgh Pirates, where he played in parts of the 1958 and 1960 seasons, and spent all of 1959 on the Pirate roster, appearing in 40 games in a utility role. On December 16, 1960, he was traded by the Pirates to the American League's new expansion franchise, the Washington Senators, where he played two full Major League seasons and enjoyed his most sustained success. In 1962, he played in 113 games, mostly at first base, swatted 17 homers, knocked in 67 RBI and batted .273. But at season's end, the Senators swapped the 33-year-old Bright to the Cincinnati Reds for a young first baseman, Rogelio Álvarez.Bright batted only once for the 1963 Reds before his contract was sold on April 21 to the defending world champion New York Yankees, who were seeking a right-handed bat off their bench. He stuck with the club all season long, batting .236 with seven homers in 157 at-bats as the Yanks copped another AL pennant.Then, in Game 1 of the 1963 World Series, Bright made history when he was sent up as a ninth-inning pinch hitter against Sandy Koufax of the Los Angeles Dodgers. Bright struck out, enabling Koufax to set a new mark (broken five years later by Bob Gibson) for strikeouts (15) in a World Series game. Said Bright: "It's a hell of a thing. I wait 17 years to get into a World Series. Then I finally get up there, and 69,000 people are yelling — yelling for me to strike out." [1] To compound matters, the game was played in Bright's home ballpark, Yankee Stadium.Bright struck out again in his only other World Series at bat, and by 1964 he had returned to the minors with the Triple-A Richmond Virginians. His MLB career ended in 1965, as a pinch hitter for the Chicago Cubs. All told, Bright appeared in 309 MLB games over all or parts of eight seasons, batting .255 with 32 homers and 126 RBI

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