Fun card to add to the "WTHBALLS" checklist, a 1975 "not so missing" card for one-game Major League pitcher Erskine Thomason of the Philadelphia Phillies:
Thomason had his
sole day in the sun on September 18th of 1974, facing the Chicago Cubs
and throwing single inning, striking out one and not allowing a hit or a
run.
Sadly for him it would end up being his only action on a
Big League mound, returning the the Minors in 1975 before retiring for
good after the 1979 season, still toiling in Philadelphia's system.
He spent all but one year with the Philadelphia organization, spending 1972 in the Texas Rangers' system before returning East.
But alas, aside from that one day at the end of the Summer in 1974, his career was as a Minor Leaguer between 1970 and 1979.
