NOT REALLY MISSING IN ACTION- 1979 DARRELL WOODARD

Today’s “not so missing” card is a 1979 edition of one-year Major League player Darrell Woodard of the Oakland A’s, who spent nine years as a professional baseball player but only got to see MLB action for a couple of months in 1978:

Woodard appeared in 33 games for Oakland between August and October of 1978, with 14 of them at second base, while also seeing a lot of time as a pinch runner.
Though hitless in nine official at-bats, he went on to score 10 runs while stealing three bases in pinch-running duties, thus comprising the entirety of his Big League career.
After his time in the Big Leagues, he’d go on to play another four seasons of pro ball in the Minor Leagues, for the Cubs and Tigers organizations before retiring for good at the end of 1982.
Guys like this are exactly why I started doing the “Not Really Missing in Action” cards. Just too much fun discovering players I never knew about all these years later.