Here’s
a “career-capping” card for former big league catcher Ken Rudolph, who
played the last 11 games of his nine-year career with the Baltimore
Orioles after starting the season with the San Francisco Giants:
Rudolph played the first five years of his career with the Chicago Cubs,
coming up during that tumultuous 1969 season, and would see the bulk of
his MLB action with the organization.
Never more than a back-up catcher, he would see the bulk of his MLB
action between 1972 and 1974, appearing in 173 of his career 328 Big
League games, playing for the Cubs, Giants, St. Louis Cardinals and
Orioles.
By the time he retired after the 1977 season, he finished with a career
average of .213, with 158 hits in 743 at-bats, along with 64 runs batted
in and 55 runs scored with six homers thrown in.