Thursday, October 18, 2018

NOT REALLY MISSING IN ACTION- 1972 JAY SCHLUETER

Today we have a 1972 card for former Houston Astros outfielder Jay Schlueter, he of a short seven-game Major League career that last about a month from June to July of 1971:


Schlueter appeared in two games as a left fielder for the Astros, going 1-for-3 at the plate with a run scored, while also pinch-running, giving him a brief taste of the Big Leagues.
Sadly for him, over the course of the next four seasons he’d be mired in the Minor Leagues, for both the Astros and St. Louis Cardinals, before retiring as a player for good at the end of the 1975 season.