Today’s
blog post has a “not so missing” 1971 card for former outfielder and
pinch hitter Len Gabrielson, who finished up a nine-year Major League
career in 1970 with the Los Angeles Dodgers:
Gabrielson appeared in 43 games for the Dodgers in 1970, batting .190
with 8 hits over 42 at-bats in what turned out to be the final action
he’d see on a Big League diamond.
Originally up with the Milwaukee Braves in 1960, his career was pretty
much evenly split up between five organizations: Dodgers, Braves,
California Angels, San Francisco Giants and Chicago Cubs between 1960
and 1970.
His final numbers were a .253 average with 446 hits in 1764 at-bats over
708 games, all as a player off the bench, with the most games played in
any one season being 116 split between the Cubs and Giants in 1965.