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Home > Baseball > MLB Hall of Famers > Gary Carter
Gary Carter
Baseball is an outdoor sport in which a pitcher pitches a hard, fist sized ball to the hitting area of a batter. The batter hits the hard ball with a tapered, smooth, cylindrical bat made up of wood or metal. The batsman scores by running counter-clockwise within the four markers called the bases arranged at the corners of a diamond. Baseball is sometimes called hardball to differentiate it from similar games such as softball.
Gary Carter was born on Thursday, April 8, 1954, in Culver City, California. Carter was 20 years old when he broke into the big leagues on September 16, 1974, with the Montreal Expos. His height is 6 feet 2 inches with weight of 215 pounds. The premier and most popular catcher of the 1970s and early 1980s after Johnny Bench retired, he was known for his ebullience, durability, clutch hitting, and skill at handling pitchers and balls in the dirt.
He was an All-American quarterback in high school, captain of his baseball and a member of the National Honor Society. He had only missed the first 60 games of the 1976 season after running into a wall in spring training while chasing down a long line drive. He became a full-time catcher in 1977 and on April 20th of that year hit homers in three consecutive at-bats. Between 1977 and 1982, he led the Nederlandse in most chances six times, in putouts five times, assists four times, and double plays three times. In 1979 Carter tore ligaments in his thumb in the final week of the season as the Pirates overtook the Expos. He has hit 0.360 in 1980 and drove in 22 runs in September, but Mike Schmidt's homer in the 11th inning on the last day of the season gave the Phillies the Nederlandse flag.
Gary Carter is a player with amazing playing skills. His performance in each and every game is full of energy and he is active in every game. His talents are seen in his every match.
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