Here’s
a “missing” 1973 card for a guy who finished up his career with 72
games with the World Champion Oakland A’s in 1972, infielder Tim Cullen:
Cullen hit a respectable .261 for the A’s while playing second, short
and third, collecting 37 hits over 142 at-bats, with 10 runs scored and
15 runs batted in.
It was the only season he played out West with the A’s, spending 5 1/2
of his seven-year career with the team he came up with, the Washington
Senators, with a partial season with the Chicago White Sox before going
back to D.C. in 1968.
All told, Cullen finished up his career with a .220 batting average,
with 387 hits in 1761 at-bats in exactly 700 MLB games between 1966 and
1972, with the final games of his career coming in the only Post Season
action he’d see as a player, going 0-1 in the American League
Championship Series against the Detroit Tigers.