SPORTS ALL-STAR STATS

By Dan Baldwin | July 1, 1989|12:00 am

The sixtieth annual All-Star game, July 11, marks the midpoint of the baseball season. Here’s how some perennial All-Stars have fared against the Texas Rangers through 1988.

Player Career Against Average Rangers

Don

Mattingly .327 361

Yankees

Hit .378 vs. Texas in 1988; five homers in 51 aT-bats in 1987.

Cal Ripken

Jr. .280 .313

Orioles

Hit for cycle (single, double, triple, homer) vs. Texas 5/6/84.

Reggie

Jackson .262 .274

A’s, Orioles,

Yankees,

Angels

(retired)

Hit 45 of his 563 homers vs.Texas-most by any Rangeropponent.

Rod Carew .328 .293

Twins,

Angels

(retired)

Only 176 of his 3,053 hits vs.Texas.

Carlton

Fisk .270 .220

Red Sox,

White Sox

Hit .063 vs. Texas in ’88; only 19 of 323 lifetime homers against Texas.

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