Today on the blog we have a card for a guy who made his MLB debut with one single at-bat in 1972, Chris Ward, who appeared in his first Big League game on September 10th of ‘72, his only appearance of the season:
Ward flied out against Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Dick Selma in the top of the 6th inning on that date for the first at-bat of what would end up being a brief two season career.
After spending all of 1973 in the Minors, a season that saw him his a solid .340 over 70 games at Triple-A, he made it back to the Big Leagues in 1974 where he played in 92 games, hitting .204 with 28 hits in 137 at-bats.
Sadly for him however, he would spend the next three years in both the Cubs, San Diego Padres and Cleveland Indians systems but never get a chance back in the Majors, finishing up with a .203 average over 93 games, with eight runs scored and 15 RBIs.