NOT REALLY MISSING IN ACTION- 1978 KEN RUDOLPH

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.