Today on the blog, we have a sweet "not so missing" 1979 card for catcher Elrod Hendricks, who was winding down a nice 12-year Major League career at this point:
Elrod
would appear in only 12 games for the Baltimore Orioles during the 1978
season, followed by one single game in 1979, thus closing out a career
that spanned 1968 through 1979.
Over his career 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 on two World Champion teams: the 1970 Baltimore Orioles and 1977 New York Yankees.
Post-playing
career, Hendricks would go on to be the longest serving coach in
Baltimore history, putting in 28 years as the bullpen coach before a
stroke in 2005 ended that run.
A
true baseball "lifer" that became a fan favorite personality within the
Oriole organization right up until his death in December of 2005, one
day before his 65th birthday.
