Bing took me to here
http://www.baseball-almanac.com/players/hittinglogs.php?p=chaneda01&y=1979
still had to scroll to find the game, but that just took a few seconds.

http://www.baseball-almanac.com/box-scores/boxscore.php?boxid=197906170NYN
I had to go back to basereference to get the pbp.
http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/NYN/NYN197906170.shtml

SB: L Mazzilli (17, 3rd base off G Garber/D Chaney);

I find it fascinating that chaney moved from 2nd to C. Dale Murphy who had plenty of C experience that season could easily had moved to C after PH for Pocoroba.

So bottom of the 9th these were the defensive changes:
Darrel Chaney moves from 2B to C
Dale Murphy moves from PH to 1B
Jerry Royster moves from 3B to 2B
Bob Horner moves from 1B to 3B

Mazilla steals 3rd on chaney and scores on the next play on a trevino single to left.

Stranger yet….
http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1979/B06170NYN1979.htm
shows that game was suspended and finished on a later date.

BRAVES 9TH: REARDON REPLACED FERRER (PITCHING); YOUNGBLOOD
CHANGED POSITIONS (PLAYING LF); HEBNER CHANGED POSITIONS
(PLAYING 1B); TREVINO REPLACED MONTANEZ (PLAYING 3B); FLORES
REPLACED HENDERSON (PLAYING RF); MURPHY BATTED FOR POCOROBA;
Murphy singled to left; game suspended after 8 innings
because predetermined time had been reached (due to rain); game
completed on 8-27; Garber forced Murphy (catcher to
shortstop); Reardon threw a wild pitch [Garber to second];
Royster grounded out (third to first); Matthews grounded out
(third to first); 0 R, 1 H, 0 E, 1 LOB. Braves 1, Mets 1.

METS 9TH: CHANEY CHANGED POSITIONS (PLAYING C ); MURPHY STAYED
IN GAME (PLAYING 1B); ROYSTER CHANGED POSITIONS (PLAYING 2B);
HORNER CHANGED POSITIONS (PLAYING 3B); Mazzilli singled to
right; Hebner grounded out (second to first) [Mazzilli to
second]; Mazzilli stole third; Trevino singled to left [Mazzilli
scored]; 1 R, 2 H, 0 E, 1 LOB. Braves 1, Mets 2.

He must have lost the good glove moniker because he led the league in errors.

He did however hit a respectable .252 and was 8th in the league with 8 triples. Darrel lost the starting job to some kid named the Pat Rocket in ’77

Probably the most interesting aspect to his non nondescript career is the fact in his last season in 1979, he played 1/3 of inning at catcher with someone stealing a base on him. Kudos to anyone who can find the boxscore and play by play for that one. I am distraught I can’t find the game. I went through all extra inning games and losing blowouts.

Apparently he was still faster in his last season then Pepe Frias, as he PR for him on 9/24/70

I think what draws me to the 75 set more than any other is the mystery of where the photo was shot. As a kid, something seemed ‘off’ yet kept my imagination spinning about the ‘backstory’ behind the cards.

Take away the chalk line and this card doesn’t even look like it was taken in a ballpark. It looks like it was taken in a park or perhaps in the sunblessed warmth of some kentucky farmland. I really see no semblance of a field. If that is a fence if the background, it looks like a farm white picket fence and 2 propane tanks end to end. And the fence seems miles away. Darrell was probably in charge of getting all the balls at the end of the day that rolled way out yonder.

It’s peaceful and serene. Darrel was one of us. Playing ball wherever we could find some open space.

Presumably, because trading Hamilton allowed them to have both Jay Bruce and Edinson Volquez.

I wish I had either A) access to that information, or B) the imagination to come up with a plausible hypothesis. The pose seems like a cross between a pitcher follow-through pose and a more-awkward version of Terry Harmon’s (see link in sidebar under Phillies) “waiting to make the catch and apply the tag” pose.

11 : Thanks for that interesting hometown info. Chaney notes that he was an “All-American” high school football player in a Born Again autobiographical piece at the link below:

http://tinyurl.com/6p3und