Up
on the blog today we have a “not so missing” 1970 card for former
Montreal Expos second baseman Marv Staehle, who made it back to the Big
Leagues in 1969 after a year in the Minors:
Staehle, who played the first four years of his Major League career with
the Chicago White Sox, made it back to a Big League field in 1969
during the Expos inaugural season, appearing in just six games,
collecting seven hits in 17 at-bats for a stellar .412 batting average
with four runs scored and a home run.
The following year he would see the most playing time of any of his
seven seasons, playing in 104 games and batting .218 with 70 hits over
321 at-bats.
Considering that the most action he ever saw in any of his other MLB
seasons was 32 games with the White Sox in 1967, you can expect that he
set personal highs across the board in 1970 except for home runs, of
which he hit none.
In 1971 he found himself with the Atlanta Braves, where he appeared in
22 games, which would be the last of his career, batting .111 with four
hits over 36 at-bats while playing some middle-infield.
All told, over those seven seasons as a Big League ballplayer, Staehle
hit .207 with 94 hits in 455 at-bats over 185 career games, with 53 runs
scored and 33 runs batted in.