Early Seventies Mets Yearbook Prospect: Brock Pemberton (1974-1975)

Brock Pemberton was born on November 5th, 1953 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He attended high school in Huntington Beach California, becoming a star baseball player there. The six foot three switch hitting first baseman was drafted by the New York Mets in the 6th round of the 1972 draft at age 18. He began his career in the rookie year in 1972, spending 1973 at A ball Pompano Beach batting .266. He did well in the Texas League in 1974 with the Victoria Toros making the All Star team hitting 37 doubles while batting .322. He got promoted to the Mets big league squad as a September call up in 1974.

He made his Mets debut as a pinch hitter going 0-1 on September 10th 1974, against the Montreal Expos. He appeared as a pinch hitter in first three games, getting a hit in the 25 inning epic against the St. Louis Cardinals on September 11th. He made his first start on September 14th going 0-5 against the Chicago Cubs inserted in the third in the lineup as a first baseman. Pemberton got one more start and then had two more hits as a pinch hitter that September.

It was back to AAA Tidewater in 1975, where he hit .297 second on the club to Mike Vail getting another September call up. Pemberton got two more pinch hit chances going 0-2 as a in September 1975. He will forever be remembered as one of those early 1970’s Mets yearbooks prospects of the future.

In 1976 he hit .290 at Tidewater second to John Stearns, but was traded away to the St. Louis Cardinals for a minor leaguer Ed Kurpiel. His playing career ended the next year at AA New Orleans. He went on to coach & manage at the minor league level into the 1980’s.