Darrel Chaney

Darrel Chaney
Shortstop
Born: March 9, 1948 (1948-03-09) (age 63) Hammond, Indiana
Batted: Both	Threw: Right
MLB debut
April 11, 1969 for the Cincinnati Reds
Last MLB appearance
September 30, 1979 for the Atlanta Braves
Career statistics
Fielding average	.959
Doubles	75
RBI	190
Teams
Cincinnati Reds (1969-1975) Atlanta Braves (1976-1979)
Career highlights and awards
Won a World Series ring with the Cincinnati Reds in 1975.

Darrel Lee Chaney (born March 9, 1948, in Hammond, Indiana) is an American former player/annnouncer in Major League Baseball who played for the Cincinnati Reds and Atlanta Braves from 1969 to 1979. In the early 1980s he worked for the Braves as an announcer on their TV and radio broadcasts along with Ernie Johnson Sr., Skip Caray and Pete van Wieren. He was on the Atlanta Braves Baseball Radio Network as well as WTBS-TV.

Chaney was selected by the Reds in the 1966 draft, and later led the Southern League with 23 home runs in 1968, earning him a spot on the Reds' roster in 1969, playing mostly as a backup shortstop behind Reds star Dave Concepción. His most notable year was 1976, his first season after being traded to Atlanta. As the Braves' regular shortstop, Chaney batted .252 with one home run and 50 RBI. Over the next three seasons, however, he was unable to hold the job against competition from two other players, and was released at the end of the 1979 season.

In 915 career games, Chaney hit for a .217 batting average, with 14 home runs, 190 runs batted in, 237 runs scored, 458 hits, 75 doubles, 17 triples and 19 stolen bases.

Graduate of Morton High School. He is currently the Chairman of the Board of the Major League Alumni Marketing (MLAM) and a Sr. Vice President of Sales and Marketing at a retail services organization [1].

External links

• Career statistics and player information from Baseball-Reference
• Page at Baseball Library

Persondata
Name	Chaney, Darrel
Alternative names
Short description	American baseball player
Date of birth	March 9, 1948
Place of birth	Hammond, Indiana
Date of death
Place of death