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:For the former long-term mayor of Laredo, Texas, see ''J. C. Martin (Texas politician)''. Joseph Clifton Martin (born December 13, 1936 in Axton, Virginia, United States) is a former Major League Baseball player. The left-handed hitting, right-handed throwing Martin played for the Chicago White Sox from to , the New York Mets in and and finished up his career with the Chicago Cubs from to . ==Chicago White Sox== Martin was scouted by the White Sox as an amateur free agent in . After five seasons in the ChiSox farm system, which included call-ups to the majors late in and , Martin became a regular in . Splitting time between first and third base, Martin batted .230 with five home runs and 32 runs batted in. Martin converted into a catcher in , after Al Lopez convinced him to go down to the minor leagues and learn to catch. Regular catcher Sherm Lollar was at the tail end of his career at the age of 37; moreover, the White Sox had traded Earl Battey and Johnny Romano and had no catchers in their farm system. As the team’s regular catcher, Martin batted only .205 in and .197 in . In , Martin batted a career-best .261, however, he also set a major league record with 33 passed balls (after committing 24 the year before)—due, in large part, to catching knuckleball pitchers Hoyt Wilhelm and Eddie Fisher. This record stood until Geno Petralli committed 35 passed balls in . In , Martin batted .234 on a team that was involved in a four-way pennant race with the Minnesota Twins, Detroit Tigers and Boston Red Sox for the American League pennant, which the latter of these teams won on the final day of the season. The White Sox had been eliminated from pennant contention after losing a doubleheader to the lowly Kansas City Athletics on September 27. After the season, the White Sox traded Martin to the New York Mets to complete a deal that had been made earlier in the season (on July 22 of that year the Mets had traded Ken Boyer to the White Sox for Bill Southworth). Both teams received a player to be named later in the deal; Sandy Alomar, Sr. was traded to the White Sox on August 15 to complete one side of the trade, and the trade of Martin to the Mets on November 27 completed the other. In another deal that same offseason, the White Sox traded Tommie Agee and Al Weis to the Mets with four players (among them Tommy Davis and Jack Fisher) going to the White Sox. Martin caught Joe Horlen's no-hitter on September 10 of that 1967 season. 〔http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/CHA/CHA196709101.shtml〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「J. C. Martin」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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