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Name	Team	Age
Don Birkle	Retired (1983, Age 37)	Died (2017, Age 71)
Drafted	Position	Bats/Throws
Round 1, Pick 9 (1967)	LF	L/R
League	Option Years	Majors Service Time
Harold Baines League	0	13 years (112 games)
Total Rating	Arm	Range
B+	B	B+
Contact vs R	Contact vs L	Speed
B	B	B
Power vs R	Power vs L	Bunting
A-	A-	C+
Endurance	Velocity	Control
B-	D-	D-
Leadership	Mentor vs RHP	Mentor vs LHP
D+	A	A
Health	Injured Days	Birthday
D	0	9/15/1946
WS Rings	WS Appearances	LCS Appearances
2	2	5
Alt Pos (RF)	Alt Pos (1B)	Alt Pos (---)
B- (53.2 %)	C  (41.1 %)	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

1967

Minors

67.00

4 / 12

2 / 7

7 / 10

6 / 8

0 / 9

8 / 11

7 / 10

34 / 67

1968

Minors

56.00

4 / 7

4 / 9

6 / 7

5 / 8

0 / 6

10 / 10

8 / 9

37 / 56

1969

Minors

52.00

5 / 9

1 / 7

2 / 4

5 / 10

0 / 8

4 / 5

7 / 9

24 / 52

1969

Majors

11.62

30

25

0

0 / 1

1 / 4

2 / 2

1 / 1

0 / 0

0 / 0

2 / 3

6 / 11

1970

Majors

54.92

121

102

40

2 / 8

0 / 7

3 / 6

0 / 9

0 / 4

7 / 14

1 / 6

13 / 54

1971

Majors

64.69

162

135

0

1 / 13

0 / 6

2 / 5

4 / 12

0 / 5

2 / 12

6 / 11

15 / 64

1972

Majors

59.62

162

135

0

1 / 10

2 / 8

2 / 11

2 / 9

1 / 10

3 / 6

1 / 5

12 / 59

1973

Majors

64.29

162

135

0

2 / 8

5 / 15

5 / 10

1 / 6

0 / 8

3 / 6

7 / 11

23 / 64

1974

Majors

64.74

162

135

0

1 / 11

2 / 12

1 / 10

2 / 13

0 / 3

1 / 7

0 / 8

7 / 64

1975

Majors

58.85

140

118

22

0 / 6

0 / 2

4 / 16

3 / 7

0 / 11

4 / 11

1 / 5

12 / 58

1976

Majors

55.46

134

113

23

0 / 5

0 / 3

0 / 11

1 / 11

0 / 10

1 / 2

0 / 13

2 / 55

1977

Majors

67.32

162

135

0

2 / 4

2 / 9

1 / 6

4 / 14

0 / 13

4 / 15

3 / 6

16 / 67

1978

Majors

45.89

109

92

53

1 / 9

0 / 6

4 / 7

1 / 6

1 / 1

5 / 11

0 / 5

12 / 45

1979

Majors

55.86

135

112

25

0 / 1

0 / 13

1 / 7

0 / 8

0 / 11

0 / 9

0 / 6

1 / 55

1980

Majors

67.22

162

135

0

0 / 16

-6 / 6

0 / 10

-4 / 14

-8 / 4

-1 / 9

-1 / 8

-20 / 67

1981

Majors

37.72

162

30

0

-1 / 5

-7 / 6

-2 / 7

-3 / 5

-7 / 5

-1 / 3

-1 / 6

-22 / 37

1982

Majors

47.84

162

53

0

-2 / 9

-1 / 7

-3 / 7

-5 / 8

-10 / 2

-1 / 9

-1 / 5

-23 / 47

1983

Majors

49.17

162

66

0

-2 / 9

-7 / 10

-1 / 4

-4 / 5

-8 / 9

0 / 7

-3 / 5

-25 / 49

Total

2127

1521

163

18 / 143

-2 / 137

34 / 140

19 / 154

-31 / 119

49 / 147

37 / 131

124 / 971

Career Transactions

Date	Transaction
1983-11-01	Don Birkle has retired from the Colorado Crush
1979-06-08	Don Birkle of the Colorado Crush is injured and is expected to be out 28 days.
1978-08-17	Don Birkle of the Colorado Crush is injured and is expected to be out 50 days.
1978-04-26	Don Birkle of the Colorado Crush is injured and is expected to be out 14 days.
1976-07-29	Don Birkle of the Colorado Crush is injured and is expected to be out 7 days.
1976-06-02	Don Birkle of the Colorado Crush is injured and is expected to be out 19 days.
1975-08-31	Don Birkle of the Colorado Crush is injured and is expected to be out 26 days.
1970-04-04	Don Birkle of the Colorado Crush is injured and is expected to be out 46 days.
1970-04-01	The Colorado Crush have promoted Don Birkle to the major league team.
1969-09-01	The Colorado Crush have promoted Lefty Garcia to the major league team. The Colorado Crush have sent Don Birkle to the minors.
1969-07-29	The Colorado Crush have promoted Don Birkle to the major league team.
1969-04-02	The Colorado Crush have renamed Gunther Applegate to Don Birkle.
1968-05-25	A trade has been completed between the Texas Wranglers and the Colorado Crush. The Colorado Crush receive Gunther Applegate, Chris Vines, Draft Pick 1969 Round 1 TEX (Johnny Moran) from the Texas Wranglers in exchange for Ed Robertson, Andy Derrington, John Field.
1968-04-28	The Texas Wranglers have renamed Ray Budnick to Gunther Applegate.
1966-07-30	A trade has been reversed between Cincinnati Mavericks and Texas Wranglers. The Texas Wranglers have re-acquired Javier Martinez, Tommy Anderson, Draft Pick 1967 Round 1 TEX (Ray Budnick), Draft Pick 1968 Round 2 TEX (John Tremie). The Cincinnati Mavericks have re-acquired Socks Watson, Jack Kish, Draft Pick 1967 Round 2 CIN (Mike Abbaticchio), Draft Pick 1968 Round 1 CIN (Ivan Armbruster).
1966-07-13	A trade has been completed between the Cincinnati Mavericks and the Texas Wranglers. The Texas Wranglers receive Jack Kish, Socks Watson, Draft Pick 1967 Round 2 CIN (Mike Abbaticchio), Draft Pick 1968 Round 1 CIN (Ivan Armbruster) from the Cincinnati Mavericks in exchange for Javier Martinez, Tommy Anderson, Draft Pick 1967 Round 1 TEX (Ray Budnick), Draft Pick 1968 Round 2 TEX (John Tremie).