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Name	Team	Age
Art Ford	Retired (1979, Age 35)	Died (2016, Age 72)
Drafted	Position	Bats/Throws
Round 2, Pick 29 (1965)	CF	L/R
League	Option Years	Majors Service Time
Ramirez Berra League	0	6 years (0 games)
Total Rating	Arm	Range
B	B	C
Contact vs R	Contact vs L	Speed
B-	B	A
Power vs R	Power vs L	Bunting
B+	B	A+
Endurance	Velocity	Control
B-	D-	D-
Leadership	Mentor vs RHP	Mentor vs LHP
C-	A-	A-
Health	Injured Days	Birthday
C-	0	8/29/1944
WS Rings	WS Appearances	LCS Appearances
0	0	0
Alt Pos (RF)	Alt Pos (---)	Alt Pos (---)
A+ (98.1 %)	F  (0.0 %)	F  (0.0 %)

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Year

Type

Chances

Active

GS

Injured

Contact vs R

Power vs R

Contact vs L

Power vs L

Speed

Arm

Range

Total

1970

Minors

61.00

2 / 7

5 / 10

5 / 10

4 / 6

2 / 10

9 / 12

5 / 6

32 / 61

1971

Minors

62.00

0 / 3

5 / 12

2 / 10

4 / 15

0 / 7

2 / 6

4 / 9

17 / 62

1972

Minors

63.00

2 / 8

3 / 11

0 / 8

4 / 6

1 / 11

4 / 7

3 / 12

17 / 63

1973

Minors

55.00

3 / 14

1 / 8

2 / 7

3 / 10

0 / 7

3 / 4

0 / 5

12 / 55

1974

Majors

57.03

138

113

24

0 / 7

0 / 10

1 / 15

0 / 3

0 / 7

0 / 4

0 / 11

1 / 57

1975

Majors

56.53

162

93

0

0 / 4

1 / 9

0 / 7

0 / 9

0 / 8

0 / 9

1 / 10

2 / 56

1976

Majors

29.93

162

24

0

0 / 7

0 / 4

0 / 1

0 / 4

0 / 5

0 / 4

0 / 4

0 / 29

1977

Majors

57.87

158

104

4

0 / 9

0 / 11

0 / 12

0 / 7

0 / 7

0 / 5

0 / 6

0 / 57

1978

Majors

47.40

162

79

0

-3 / 10

-3 / 7

-1 / 3

-2 / 5

-1 / 10

-2 / 8

-1 / 4

-13 / 47

1979

Majors

16.58

162

4

0

-3 / 2

-6 / 2

-3 / 2

-7 / 3

0 / 3

-2 / 1

-1 / 3

-22 / 16

Total

944

417

28

1 / 71

6 / 84

6 / 75

6 / 68

2 / 75

14 / 60

11 / 70

46 / 503

Career Transactions

Date	Transaction
1979-11-01	Art Ford has retired from the Minnesota Twins
1977-05-13	Art Ford of the Minnesota Twins is injured and is expected to be out 5 days.
1974-07-25	Art Ford of the Minnesota Twins is injured and is expected to be out 28 days.
1974-03-25	The Minnesota Twins have promoted Joe Templeton to the major league team. The Minnesota Twins have promoted Nolan Bergamo to the major league team. The Minnesota Twins have promoted Art Ford to the major league team. The Minnesota Twins have promoted Don Bonner to the major league team. The Minnesota Twins have designated Barney Stewart for assignment. The Minnesota Twins have designated Izzy Bagwell for assignment.