Today's blog post has a fun card to create, a "not so missing" 1970 card for Ozzie Virgil, who saw his last action in a Major League game during the 1969 season, even though he was a coach at that time:
Virgil last saw Major League action in 1966, as a member of the San Francisco Giants, before he eventually went into coaching in 1969.
However,
during that initial coaching season, he found himself with an
opportunity to get a plate appearance on June 27th of that year, going
0-1 at the plate at the age of 37, returning to his coaching gig.
Originally
up in 1956 with the New York Giants, Virgil put in nine seasons in the
Big Leagues, hitting .231 with 174 hits over 753 at-bats in 324 games
playing for five teams: Giants, Detroit Tigers, Pittsburgh Pirates,
Baltimore Orioles and Kansas City Athletics.
His son Ozzie Jr.
eventually became an All-Star catcher in the 1980's, playing for the
Philadelphia Phillies, Atlanta Braves and Toronto Blue Jays between 1980
and 1990.