Friday, June 8, 2018

NOT REALLY MISSING IN ACTION- 1976 TOMMY BIANCO

Another fun card to create to fill out the awesome 1976 set, a card for former Milwaukee Brewers infielder Tommy Bianco, who played the only games of his brief MLB career during the 1975 season:


Bianco appeared in 18 games for the Brewers, batting .176 with six hits over 34 at-bats, with six runs scored while playing third and first base with some DH-ing thrown in.
Originally drafted as the third overall pick in the 1971 draft after Danny Goodwin and Jay Franklin, #’s 1 & 2 respectively, Bianco had some pop in his bat, hitting 28 homers with 81 runs batted in during the 1974 season at Triple-A Sacramento in the Pacific Coast League.
Sadly for him however, as mentioned earlier those 18 Big League games during the 1975 season would be it for him, as he’d play out the next four years in the Minor Leagues for the Milwaukee, Montreal, Detroit and Baltimore organizations.