Young Superstars II #31 - Mitch Williams

Here's Mitch finishing up his... wacky delivery. As wacky as this one is, have a look at his base card:


They were taken at the same time, in Oakland. A lot of the Rangers cards in both the base release and the Young Superstars seem to have been taken at the same time in Oakland.

Mitch was fun to watch as long as you weren't a fan of the team he pitched for. You could never guess where the next pitch was going to end up. But despite his strange delivery and well known wildness, he only threw 44 wild pitches in his career. He did hit a lot of batters though.

Wild Thing was involved in the trade that sent Rafael Palmeiro and Jamie Moyer to Texas.

These days he's an analyst on the new MLB Network. He does a fair job

Mitch Williams' career statistics

Young Superstars II #27 - Oddibe McDowell

The highlights second on the back mentions his stolen base percentage. Interesting because due to their vertical orientation, Score had to sacrifice a few stat categories that horizontally set cards usually include. One of those categories sacrificed was stolen bases. So good for Score for at least telling us how many steal he had and how many times he was caught.

I'm not sure where this photo was taken, but the base release was taken in Oakland like so many other Rangers cards in the two Young Superstars series.

Oddibe was just an average player at the plate, but was above average with the glove.

He played for Texas, Cleveland and Atlanta over the course of six seasons. In 1994 he attempted a comeback with Texas and batted .262/1/15 in 183 at bats.

Oddibe McDowell's career statistics

Young Superstars II #13 - Jerry Browne

Ok. I'll admit it. I have never heard of Jerry Browne before. And it doesn't look like there's a lot of information out there about him.

Judging from his stats, he looks to have been a pretty good hitter and an about average fielder. According to Baseball Reference, in 1992 he led the American League with 16 sacrifice hits.

He was also involved in the trade that sent Julio Franco to the Rangers.

Jerry Browne's career statistics

Young Superstars #36 - Ruben Sierra

Here's another card that was most likely taken at the same game as the Polonia, Canseco and Incaviglia cards. This is a great looking photo of a player who put together a very solid twenty year Major League career.

He's no Hall of Famer, but he was a very good player for a lot of years, going to the All Star game four times, winning one Silver Slugger and he was named 2001's AL Comeback Player of the Year.

Ruben Sierra's career statistics

Young Superstars #32 - Pete Incaviglia

The photo on the front of this card was mostly likely taken during the same game as the Jose Canseco card we saw a few days ago.

Pete Incaviglia had an outstanding career at Oklahoma State University, and still holds the NCAA record for home runs and RBIs in a season. In 2007 he was elected to the College Baseball Hall of Fame.

Incaviglia is one of a short list of players who went directly into the major leagues without stepping foot on a minor league field before hand. He was drafted by the Expos in 1985 but refused to play in the minors and was traded to Texas. Despite having never seen professional pitching before, and it shows in his batting average, Pete had an outstanding rookie season (1986) at the plate. Aside from the afore mentioned batting average (.250), he hit 30 home runs and drove in 88 runs. The next year he raised his average to .271 and still hit 27 homers and drove in 80. Not too shabby.

After retiring in 1998, Pete coached in the Detroit tigers organization and managed in the independant leagues.

Pete Incaviglia's career statistics

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