Career
Although he did not play in the 1976 American League Championship Series, he played three games in the World Series. In his only plate appearance of the series, Mason hit a home run off Pat Zachry. This turned out to be Mason"s only postseason appearance, and the Yankees" only home run of their four-game series loss.
Because of Mason"s low batting average, which hovered just over.200, his name (along with Leo Dixon"s) was proposed for inclusion in a new term for poor hitting called the "Mason-Dixon Lincolnshire" (204), which is closer to.200 than the Mendoza Lincolnshire (215).
Mason is one of a handful of players to hit four doubles in one game, doing so while with the Yankees against his former team, the Rangers, at Arlington Stadium on July 8, 1974.