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Ken Boswell
Ultimate Mets Database popularity ranking: 46 of 1252 players

Kenneth George Boswell
Born: February 23, 1946 at Austin, Tex.
Throws: Right Bats: Left
Height: 6.00 Weight: 170

Ken Boswell has been the most popular Ultimate Mets Database daily lookup 21 times, most recently on December 8, 2022.

First Mets game: September 18, 1967
Last Mets game: October 2, 1974

Uniform Numbers:

Uniform Number	Start Date	End Date
24	September 18, 1967	October 1, 1967
12	April 9, 1968	October 2, 1974

24,+12

Ken Boswell also played for the following team:

Houston Astros 1975 - 1977

Selected by New York Mets organization in fourth round of free agent draft on June 8, 1965.

Traded by the New York Mets to the Houston Astros in exchange for Bob Gallagher on October 29, 1974.

Click the icon to see a graph of Ken Boswell's batting, slugging, and on base percentages

Batting Record with New York Mets

Year G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB IBB SO HBP SB CS SH SF TB Avg. Slg. OBP

1967 11 40 2 9 3 0 1 4 1 0 5 0 0 0 0 2 15 .225 .375 .233

1968 75 284 37 74 7 2 4 11 16 0 27 1 7 2 3 2 97 .261 .342 .300

1969 102 362 48 101 14 7 3 32 36 3 47 2 7 3 4 1 138 .279 .381 .347

1970 105 351 32 89 13 2 5 44 41 8 32 2 5 4 3 5 121 .254 .345 .331

1971 116 392 46 107 20 1 5 40 36 4 31 2 5 2 2 4 144 .273 .367 .334

1972 100 355 35 75 9 1 9 33 32 1 35 0 2 2 9 4 113 .211 .318 .274

1973 76 110 12 25 2 1 2 14 12 2 11 0 0 0 1 0 35 .227 .318 .303

1974 96 222 19 48 6 1 2 15 18 1 19 1 0 1 2 1 62 .216 .279 .277

8 years 681 2116 231 528 74 15 31 193 192 19 207 8 26 14 24 19 725 .250 .343 .312

League Championship Series Record

Year G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB IBB SO HBP SB CS SH SF TB Avg. Slg. OBP

1969 3 12 4 4 0 0 2 5 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 10 .333 .833 .385

1973 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000

2 years 4 13 4 4 0 0 2 5 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 10 .308 .769 .357

World Series Record

Year G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB IBB SO HBP SB CS SH SF TB Avg. Slg. OBP

1969 1 3 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 .333 .333 .333

1973 3 3 1 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 1.000 1.000 1.000

2 years 4 6 2 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 .667 .667 .667

Led Mets in triples with 7 in 1969.
Led Mets in grounded into double play with 13 in 1969.

Games where Ken Boswell had 4 or more Hits
vs. Philadelphia (NL) 09/10/70. vs. Houston (NL) 05/12/71. At Chicago (NL) 07/21/71. At Atlanta (NL) 08/07/71.
At Houston (NL) 09/02/72. At Philadelphia (NL) 09/13/72. At Montreal (NL) 10/03/72.

Games played by position
1967: Second Base 6, Third Base 4
1968: Second Base 69
1969: Second Base 96
1970: Second Base 101
1971: Second Base 109
1972: Second Base 94
1973: Third Base 17, Second Base 3
1974: Second Base 28, Third Base 20, Outfield 7, Right Field 5, Left Field 2

Lineup Analysis
Number of games in each batting order position in games in which Ken Boswell was in the starting lineup.

Year 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th

1967 1 4 0 0 0 3 2 0 0
1968 13 51 3 0 0 0 0 0 0
1969 2 33 30 7 17 0 2 0 0
1970 0 3 10 0 18 50 12 0 0
1971 5 28 0 0 18 49 1 0 0
1972 2 59 1 0 2 12 12 1 0
1973 0 4 2 0 0 5 3 0 0
1974 0 12 5 0 2 20 3 4 0
Totals 23 194 51 7 57 139 35 5 0

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