Thursday, October 26, 2017

NOT REALLY MISSING IN ACTION- 1975 TOM HEINTZELMAN

Here’s a 1975 card for a guy who had one card as a Major League player, a spot on the multi-player rookie cards of the 1974 set, Tom Heintzelman, who would put in a brief four year career, but could be argued to have missed out on two cards by Topps:


After a brief cup-of-coffee in 1973 (hence the rookie card the following year), he would make it back to the Big Leagues in 1974 with the St. Louis Cardinals, appearing in 38 games, batting .230 with 17 hits over 74 at-bats.
He also had 10 runs scored and nine walks in that brief period of play, but would find himself spending the next few seasons in the Minor Leagues, putting up some nice numbers.
In 1977 he’d be back, albeit for only two games with the San Francisco Giants where he went 0-for-2 at the plate as a pinch-hitter before playing the last 27 games of his career the following season, batting .229 with eight hits in 35 at-bats, generally as a pinch-hitter.
All told he played four brief seasons, batting .243 with 34 hits in 140 at-bats spread out over 90 games with the Cardinals and Giants.

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