finalyear bats birth_place debutyear finaldate statvalue position finalteam statlabel debutdate birth_date article_title debutteam name throws
1966 left san diego , california 1962 october 2 .236 15 56 outfielder new york mets batting average home runs runs batted in april 19 5 march 1938 larry elliot
 pittsburgh pirates larry elliot left
larry elliot

lawrence lee elliot -lrb- born march 5 , 1938 -rrb- is an american former professional baseball player .
an outfielder , he appeared in 157 major league games , all but 12 of them for the new york mets -lrb- ; -rrb- .
the native of san diego , california , attended herbert hoover high school , alma mater of baseball hall of famer ted williams ; he threw and batted left-handed , stood tall and weighed .
elliot was signed by the pittsburgh pirates as a 20-year-old out of san diego city college , and spent four years in the bucs ' farm system before making his major league debut with pittsburgh in .
as a minor leaguer , elliot had flashed home run power , hitting 16 homers in both 1958 and 1961 , and 25 with the 1959 wilson tobs of the class b carolina league .
per the baseball rules then in force , major league clubs could keep 28 players on their rosters for the first 30 days of the regular season , before cutting down to the 25-man active roster used until september 1 .
elliot received the first of his two early-season trials for pittsburgh in april 1962 , and appeared in eight games , including one as the club 's starting right fielder , and collecting three hits in ten at bats .
in his eighth and final appearance , on may 3 , he pinch hit for pitcher diomedes olivo and hit a home run off eventual 24-game-winner jack sanford of the san francisco giants .
he then was sent down to the triple-a columbus jets , where he hit 23 more home runs , but batted only .235 in 134 games .
he followed a similar pattern in , making the pirates out of spring training , appearing sparingly -lrb- four games as a pinch hitter -rrb- , and then being sent to columbus at the cutdown ; that season , he hit 26 homers for the jets .
on december 16 , 1963 , the pirates sold elliot 's contract to the mets .
although elliot spent part of 1964 with the triple-a buffalo bisons , hitting eight homers in 42 games , he spent most of the campaign in the majors , getting into 80 games and starting 55 contests in center field in relief of jim hickman .
on august 11 , he gained a measure of revenge against his old team when he doubled and homered , drove in two runs , and led the mets to a 3 -- 2 victory over the pirates in a game shortened by rain .
elliot batted only .228 for the mets , but hit nine homers in 256 at bats .
he then played the entire season in the minor leagues , but the mets took some of the sting out of the demotion by loaning elliot to his hometown san diego padres of the pacific coast league , the triple-a affiliate of the cincinnati reds .
he started 1966 with the mets ' jacksonville suns triple-a club , batted a career-high .303 with 11 home runs in 73 games , and was recalled to new york in july .
elliot continued his hot hitting during his early appearances , with a three-hit game -lrb- and four rbi -rrb- against the houston astros on july 18 pushing his batting average to .348 .
but , although he started 53 games in corner outfield spots for the mets through the end of season , his average eventually declined to .246 .
elliot began with jacksonville ; then , on may 10 , the mets traded him to the kansas city athletics in what would be a significant trade for them , as they received in return third baseman ed charles .
charles became a prominent member of the 1969 `` miracle mets '' and would be identified with the mets for many years .
elliot played three full seasons -lrb- 1967 -- 1969 -rrb- at the triple-a level before retiring .
in his 157 mlb games , elliot had 103 hits , including 22 doubles , two triples and 15 home runs .
