He stole home nineteen times in his ten-year major-league career (1947-56), and the threat that he might suddenly break for the plate unnerved pitchers, some of whom balked or accidentally grooved the ball to the batter.
"I can sympathize, empathize, with the demands, with the pressures that are on his shoulders, on his plate and put in front of him, " Brings Plenty said during a break from a Tribal Council meeting.