Fun card to create based off a short discussion on "X" the other
day, a 1969 "not so missing" card for Dick Kenworthy, which has a bit of
a twist:
You see, Kenworthy put in parts of
six seasons in the Major Leagues between 1962 and 1968, yet only got one
card in a Topps set, in 1968 shown as a New York Met.
The problem here is that he put in all six of his Big League seasons with the Chicago White Sox!
So here I created a "career-capper" to mark his time as a White Sox player.
To
be fair to Topps, Kenworthy was purchased by the Mets in October of
1967, only to be returned to the White Sox in March of 1968, so that's
where the confusion came from.
Though he only played in 17
games spread across his first four seasons between 1962 and 1966, he did
appear in 50 and 58 games respectively in 1967 and 1968, his final two
years as a Big Leaguer.
Overall, he would finish with a .215
batting average over 125 total games, with 54 hits in 251 at-bats, with
four home runs and 13 runs batted in, while scoring 12 himself.
Fun little quirk in the Topps baseball card world, fixed here!
