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Article: Where have you gone, Carlos May? Former All-Star for the White Sox recalls his career in the majors.(Interview)(Statistical Data Included)
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- Baseball Digest
- Article date:
- September 1, 2002
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FORMER WHITE SOX SLUGGER CARLOS MAY IS remembered and revered by die-hard White Sox fans as one of the club's standouts during the feel-good, red-pinstriped era of the early 1970s.
Along with big boppers Bill Melton and Dick Allen, May provided the pop to a White Sox team that gave the mighty Oakland A's a run for their money in 1972.
And though his solid 10-year big league career did not earn him millions of dollars or a place in Cooperstown, May's accomplishments are impressive enough, considering his career nearly ended before it started.
May broke into the major leagues in 1968 as a September call-up to the White Sox. He began the 1969 ...