Monday, July 16, 2018

NOT REALLY MISSING IN ACTION- 1975 MIKE RYAN

Up on the blog today I have a career-capping 1975 card for former catcher Mike Ryan, who played out his 11-year career with the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1974:

Ryan appears in 15 games for Pittsburgh that season after six years with the Philadelphia Phillies, the final games of his Big League career.
Over those 15 games he batted .100 with three hits over 30 at-bats while filling in behind the plate for Manny Sanguillen.
Ryan originally spent the first four years of his career with the Boston Red Sox, including their magical 1967 season when they went straight to the World Series before losing to Bob Gibson and the St. Louis Cardinals.
Nevertheless, over his eleven seasons Ryan batted .193, with 370 hits in 1920 at-bats over 636 games for the three teams mentioned above: Boston, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh.