Friday, August 7, 2020

NOT REALLY MISSING IN ACTION- 1970 MEL NELSON

 Up on the blog today is a “not so missing” 1970 card for a guy whose career was already completed, former pitcher Mel Nelson:

Nelson played the last of his Big League games in 1969 with eight games as a St. Louis Cardinal, going 0-1 with a bloated 11.81 earned run average in 5.1 innings of work.
Originally up to the Majors in 1960 as a 24-year-old with St. Louis, he went on to pitch parts of six seasons over the next decade with the Cardinals, Los Angeles Angels and Minnesota Twins between 1960 and 1969.
By the time he hung up the cleats in 1969, he finished with a career record of 4-10 over 93 appearances, with an ERA of 4.40 over 173.2 innings, with five saves and a complete game along the way.

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