Today
 on the blog we have a “not so missing” 1970 card for a two-game Major 
League pitcher, Gary Timberlake, who played for those one-year Seattle 
Pilots in 1969:
Timberlake didn’t post a decision in his two-game stint in the Big 
Leagues, pitching to an earned run average of 7.50 over six innings of 
work, with four strikeouts and a whopping nine base on balls.
Only 20 years old at the time, he’d go on to pitch another six years in 
the Minor Leagues, the last five with the Oakland organization, but 
never getting another shot in the Majors, retiring for good after the 
1975 season.
With those Oakland staffs of Hunter, Blue, Holtzman, etc, I can see why a
 young starter would have had a hard time breaking into that rotation 
during the early to mid 1970’s.
