Monday, June 18, 2018

NOT REALLY MISSING IN ACTION- 1971 LEN GABRIELSON

Today’s blog post has a “not so missing” 1971 card for former outfielder and pinch hitter Len Gabrielson, who finished up a nine-year Major League career in 1970 with the Los Angeles Dodgers:


Gabrielson appeared in 43 games for the Dodgers in 1970, batting .190 with 8 hits over 42 at-bats in what turned out to be the final action he’d see on a Big League diamond.
Originally up with the Milwaukee Braves in 1960, his career was pretty much evenly split up between five organizations: Dodgers, Braves, California Angels, San Francisco Giants and Chicago Cubs between 1960 and 1970.
His final numbers were a .253 average with 446 hits in 1764 at-bats over 708 games, all as a player off the bench, with the most games played in any one season being 116 split between the Cubs and Giants in 1965.

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