Today's blog post has a "not so missing" 1974 card for former catcher Elrod (Ellie) Hendricks, who really should have had a card in the years set after his 1973 playing time:
Hendricks
appeared in 41 games for the Baltimore Orioles in 1973, going
18-for-101 with 15 runs batted in and 10 walks over 114 plate
appearances.
It
was somewhat of a typical season for the backstop, as he would never
truly get full-time action in any of his seasons in the Big Leagues.
Between 1969 and 1971 he did manage to get into 100+ games, with a high of 106 in 1970.
But for the rest of his career it was always under the 100-game mark, filling in behind the plate wherever he was playing.
For his 12-year career spanning 1968 to 1979 he played in 711 games,
with 415 hits in 1888 at-bats, giving him a .220 lifetime average with
205 runs and 230 runs batted in, playing two World Champions team: 1970 Baltimore Orioles and 1977 New York Yankees.
