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1957

February 7: Carney was born.

1961

January 15: Carney's brother Joseph Dale Lansford was born.

1969

Carney played for the Santa Clara Little League team which made it to the finals of the Little League World Series. In the final game of the World Series on August 2), Carney's team was defeated 2-0 by the team from Taipei City, Taiwan. (Carney is one of less than a dozen men who have played in both the Little League World Series and the MLB World Series.)

1973-1975

Carney attended Wilcox High School in Santa Clara, California. Graduated in June 1975. (The baseball field there is named after him now.)

1975

Drafted - Selected by California Angels in 3rd Round (49th overall) of 1975 amateur entry draft (June-Regular).  

1978

Carney's brother Phil was taken 10th overall in the amateur draft by the Cleveland Indians. Phil never made it to the major leagues.

1979

Carney's brother Joe was drafted by the Padres in the first round of the amateur draft

1980

Dec 10,1980 - Traded by Angels with Mark Clear and Rick Miller to Red Sox for Butch Hobson and Rick Burleson.  

1982

Carney's brother Joe played for the Padres in 13 major league games in '82.

Dec 6,1982 - The Red Sox traded Carney Lansford, Jerry King and Garry Hancock to the Oakland Athletics in exchange for Jeff Newman and Tony Armas.  

1983

Carney's brother Joe appeared in 12 Padres games in '83. That was the end of his major league career.

1984

July 3, 1984 - Carney's son Joshua was born.

1986

Oct. 22, 1986 - Carney's son Jared was born.

1991

Nov 6,1991 - Granted Free Agency.

Dec 9,1991 - Signed as Free Agent by Athletics.

1992

October - Carney announced his retirement after game 6 of the World Series.

1997-98

Carney worked as bench coach for the St Louis Cardinals.

2007

At the age of 50 Carney made a successful return to professional baseball as the hitting coach for triple-A Colorado Springs in the Rockies' organization. His team, the Sky Sox, ranked third in the Pacific Coast League with a .292 batting average and fifth with a .353 on-base percentage.

In November the San Francisco Giants announced they have hired Carney to serve as a hitting instructor. "I am greatly looking forward to the honor of becoming a member of the Giants family," Lansford said. "As a Bay Area native who was born in San Jose and raised in Santa Clara, I have been a life-long Giants fan."