Wednesday, November 1, 2017

NOT REALLY MISSING IN ACTION- 1970 WAYNE REDMOND

Here’s a great card to add to my roster of missing-cards, a “not so missing” 1970 card for former outfielder Wayne Redmond of the Detroit Tigers, who ended up sporting a brief nine game career spread over two seasons, the last being 1969:


Redmond played what would turn out to be the last five games of his career in ‘69, going 0-for-3 at the plate in pinch-hitting roles.
In 1965 he would see the only other Major League action of his career when he was a September call-up and promptly went 0-for-4 with a walk and a run scored in that time.
Curiously, he would actually have a Topps card, a shared multi-player card in 1971, two years after his last MLB appearance, AND depicted as a player on a team he wouldn’t end up playing for, Major or Minor, the Philadelphia Phillies!
According to Baseball-Reference.com he stuck around in the Pros until the 1973 season, playing for the Angels’, White Sox and Padres organizations before leaving the game for good.
Love stuff like this!