Here’s
a 1974 card that wasn’t really “missing”, an Alan Closter
Atlanta Braves card, for whom he played the final games of his brief
Major League career in 1973:
Closter appeared in four games, all out of the ‘pen, getting hit hard
with seven earned runs and seven hits over 4.1 innings, to the tune of a
14.54 earned run average.
Originally up with the Washington Senators in 1966, he wouldn’t see a
Major League mound again until he was back, now with the New York
Yankees, in 1971, for whom he’d play the next two seasons, albeit
briefly.
The only big league decisions he’d get were in 1971, when he posted a
record of 2-2 along with a 5.08 E.R.A., appearing in 14 games with a
start thrown in among them.
After those aforementioned four games with Atlanta in 1973, he would
pitch for the Braves Minor League system through the 1975 season, then
call it a career after eleven seasons as a pro, four of them in the
Major Leagues.