Tony Batista Autographed 1997 Bowman's Best Refractors #136 Oakland Athletics Card

Add a premium parallel from Tony Batistas early career with this Tony Batista autographed 1997 Bowman's Best Refractors #136 Oakland Athletics card. This is the Refractor parallel of Batistas regular Bowman's Best #136, giving the card the distinctive reflective finish that has made Refractors popular with collectors. The #136 Batista is confirmed as part of the 1997 Bowman's Best Refractor series.

Batista entered 1997 following an impressive rookie campaign with Oakland and served primarily as the Athletics shortstop during his second Major League season. He appeared in 68 games, collecting 38 hits, 10 doubles, four home runs and 18 RBI while making 54 starts at shortstop and also seeing time elsewhere in the infield.

Although Batista was still establishing himself in Oakland, he would soon develop into one of the more productive power-hitting infielders of his era. He enjoyed his breakout season after moving on from the Athletics and eventually became a two-time American League All-Star, earning selections with Toronto in 2000 and Baltimore in 2002.

Batista finished his Major League career with 1,146 hits, 221 home runs and 718 RBI, highlighted by a career-high 41 home runs and 114 RBI for Toronto in 2000.

The 1997 Bowman's Best Refractors #136 offers additional appeal over Batistas standard base card and is an excellent addition for Oakland Athletics collectors, Tony Batista fans, Refractor collectors, Bowman's Best collectors or collectors assembling comprehensive autographed player runs.

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