On the blog today, we have a career-capping 1973 card for former infielder Chico Salmon, who finished up his nine-year Big League career with a handful of games as a Baltimore Oriole in 1972:
Salmon, who many of you will remember as a member of the Cleveland
Indians between 1964 and 1968, played the last four years of his career
with Baltimore, including the 17 games in what was his last hurrah on a
Big League diamond.
Over those 17 games he hit .063 with one hit in 16 at-bats, scoring two
runs while striking out four times, playing first and third.
Never a full-time player, the most action he ever saw in any one season
was back in 1966 when he suited up for 126 games for Cleveland, hitting
.256 with 108 hits in 422 at-bats, with 46 runs scored and 40 runs
batted in, which were all career-bests.
By the time he retired, he finished with a career .249 average, with 415
hits in 1667 at-bats in 658 games between 1964 and 1972, with 202 runs
scored and 149 RBIs.
