It looks like Sonny is posing in front of the mall directory.
Sonny Siebert was an excellent pitcher for some bad Cleveland and Boston teams in the late 1960s and early 1970s. He had eight straight seasons of double digit wins (1965-1972). A two-time All Star, he pitched a no-hitter in 1966 and was third in the AL in ERA in 1967. Overall in 399 games, including late-career stops in Texas, St. Louis, San Diego and Oakland, he went 140-114 with a 3.21 ERA. A good hitter for a pitcher, if not for a major leaguer, in 660 career at-bats he hit .173 with 12 HR and 57 RBI. He had a two-HR game for the Red Sox in 1971, the last by an American League pitcher until Shohei Ohtani did it in 2023. After his career he was a long-time coach in the Padres organization, and also owned a Baskin-Robbins and a newspaper distribution business. He is now retired and living in Missouri.
Leave it up to Shohei to steal part of the spotlight from another MLB player.
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