220 pound base stealer
Here's an odd bit of trivia I just stumbled upon. There is a player with more than 30 career SB attempts, who's success rate (SB divided by SB+CS) is higher than Lou Brock's, and within 2 percentage points of Rickey Henderson's.
Clues: He played primarily in the 1960s, and his Topps rookie card had him at 200 pounds his first year, which is pretty hefty for a guy under 6 feet tall. His playing weight is listed by Baseball Almanac at 220.
I guarantee, if people don't start looking this up, nobody will guess it.
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