Here’s
a fun card to add to the 1970 collection, a “not so missing” Clyde
Mashore, known for his five seasons with the Montreal Expos, yet came up
for his first taste of Major League ball with two games in 1969 with
the Cincinnati Reds:
Mashore went 0-1 at the plate with a run scored for the Reds as a 24-year-old when he got called-up in July.
About a year later he would be traded to the Montreal franchise for Ty
Cline, and would spend the rest of his playing days with the Expos,
playing through the 1973 season, generally as a guy off the bench.
Never a full-time player, Mashore ended playing in 241 games during his
Big League stay, hitting .208 with 87 hits over 419 at-bats, hitting
eight homers and driving in 47, along with 11 stolen bases and 58 runs
scored.
I also created “missing” cards for him in the past, a 1974
“career-capper” and a 1972 edition, since Topps failed to include him in
those sets while having others with far less playing time getting a
slot.