Edwards appeared in 50 games during the 1974 season, his last as a productive catcher over the course of his career in which he was a three-time all-star and two-time Gold Glove backstop.
In those 50 games, he batted .222 with 26 hits over 117 at-bats, with 10 runs batted in and eight runs scored while catching 32 of those appearances.
For his career, he finished up with a .242 batting average with 1106 hits in 4577 at-bats in 1470 MLB games, and played on two N.L. Championship teams, the 1961 Cincinnati Reds and 1968 Cardinals, who would both lose in the World Series, to the New York Yankees and Detroit Tigers respectively.