NOT REALLY MISSING IN ACTION- 1976 LAFAYETTE CURRENCE

This right here is one of the main reasons I ever started the blog in the first place, a “not so missing” card for a player I have never heard of before, who happens to have one of the best names I’ve ever heard of, former Milwaukee Brewers pitcher Lafayette Currence:

The extent of Currence’s career was eight games during the Summer of 1975, pitching 18.2 innings and going 0-2 with a bloated 7.71 earned run average, with seven strikeouts and 14 walks with 25 hits allowed (ouch)!
Nevertheless, though he never got another chance at a Big League game after that initial showing, spending the next two seasons in the Brewers’ system through 1977, I wish there was a card, even just a multi-player rookie slot, for him in the 1976 set just to have had this name thrown at me all those years ago.
Originally in the Pittsburgh Pirates organization, Currence spent eight-years in pro ball, spanning 1970-1977, but only got those eight games in 1975 on a Big League mound.
And get this: his FULL name is actually Delancey Lafayette Currence! Fantastic!!!