Time
to go and give former pitcher Eddie Solomon a “not so missing” 1974
card after his first taste of the Big Leagues the previous season:
Solomon, who would go on to pitch 10 years in the Major Leagues,
appeared in four games for the Los Angeles Dodgers in 1973, not
factoring in a decision with a 7.11 earned run average over 6.1 innings.
He’d appear in just four games the following season as well, but would
see much better results, posting an ERA of 1.50 over 6 innings, allowing
just one earned run.
He’d spend the rest of his career as an arm that could start or come out
of the bullpen, mainly with the Atlanta Braves and Pittsburgh Pirates,
for whom he pitched between 1977 and 1982.
He finished his career with a record of 36-42, along with an ERA of
exactly 4.00 over 191 appearances and 718 innings, with 95 of those
games as starts.
Sadly, in January of 1986 at the young age of only 34, he died in a car accident in Macon, Georgia.