RIP Jim Marshall & Brian Dayett

I wanted to do a quick post about two former MLB/NPB players who both passed away this past Sunday, Jim Marshall and Brian Dayett.

Jim Marshall is probably best known to most baseball fans as an original Met (he played 17 games with the inaugural 1962 squad) and as manager of the Cubs and A's in the 70's but he spent the last three years of his playing career with the Chunichi Dragons from 1963 to 1965.  He hit 78 home runs with 252 RBIs over those three seasons and made the Central League All Star team each year.  He returned to Japan in the early 80's as a coach for the Dragons under manager Sadao Kondoh, who'd been a coach for the Dragons when Marshall played for them.  Marshall was 94.  

As far as I can tell, Marshall had four baseball cards in Japan, all from menko sets in 1963 and 1964.  He's in the 1963 Marusho JCM 13c and Marukami JCM 14f and the 1964 Marusan JCM 11 and Marukami JCM 14g sets.  The only ones of these that I have are the Marukami ones:

1963 Marukami JCM 14f

1964 Marukami JCM 14g

Brian Dayett had spent several seasons with the Yankees and Cubs before signing a four year deal with the Fighters prior to the 1988 season.  Injuries limited him to only 35 games in his first season and while he was healthy enough to get into 84 games in 1989, he only hit .278 with 14 home runs which was not the production that the Fighters had been hoping for.  He was pretty much relegated to the farm team over his last two years in Japan, only getting into 26 games with the top team in 1990 and 1991.  He retired as a player after his contract with the Fighters was up.  He passed away from complications from Parkinson's disease at age 68 after a 25 year battle with the disease.

I believe Dayett had five Japanese baseball cards.  He's in the 1988 and 1990 Takara Fighters sets, the 1988 Calbee set, the 1989 Lotte set and the 1991 BBM set.  Here are two of them:

1988 Takara Fighters #9

1991 BBM #107