Time to go and give former reliever Bill McCool a career-capping 1971 card, closing out his seven-year Major League career:
McCool, who played the first five of his seasons with the Cincinnati
Reds, appeared in 18 games for the Cardinals in 1970, all out of the
bullpen, going 0-3 with a 6.23 earned run average in 21.2 innings of
work.
The year before, he was one of the original San Diego Padres, going 3-5
with a 4.30 ERA over 54 games for the new Major League franchise in
their inaugural season.
As stated earlier, the rest of his time on a Big League mound was spent
with the Reds, having a couple of good years back-to-back, 1965 and
1966, when he saved 21 and 18 games respectively.
As a 19-year-old in 1965, he had a really good season when he went 6-5
with a 2.42 ERA with seven saves over 40 games, though he didn’t pick up
a single Rookie of the Year vote, the award being won by Jim Lefebvre
in a rather lackluster campaign (actually Joe Morgan should have won the award).
Overall, McCool finished his career with a record of 32-42, along with
an ERA of 3.59 and 58 saves over 292 appearances and 528.1 innings of
work.