Johnny Briggs played in 12 big league seasons and parts of five seasons with the Milwaukee Brewers. Being from Paterson, New Jersey, Briggs had looked forward to a possible offer the New York Mets might have offer him. However, a scout from the Philadelphia Phillies arrived to his house first and Briggs was signed as an amateur free agent with the Phillies. He made his Major League debut in 1964. Briggs spent eight seasons with the Phillies before he was traded to the Brewers in 1971 with whom he played his best baseball. As a mainstay in the Brew Crew lineup, Briggs hit .253 and averaged 19 home runs and 64 RBI per season. Briggs was traded again in the middle of the 1975 season to the Minnesota Twins.
The following year, Briggs signed a two-year contract to play in Japan with the Lotte Onions. Contracting parasites from spoiled food cut his first season short and he did not return to Japan for a second season for fear of becoming sick again.
About This Card
Johnny Briggs is pictured here with fully grown muttonchops. Briggs is clean shaven in his early Topps cards, but the sideburns started to grow in his 1970 Topps card. The sideburns got thicker the two following years and were fully grown by 1973. Briggs continued sporting the muttonchops through his final Topps card in 1976.
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