ROOKIE CARDS FIVE YEARS APART: DICK BANEY'S TOPPS RESUME

Even after all these years of obsessing over baseball cards, specifically those of the 1970’s, you’re never too old to realize something new, as in the case of former pitcher Dick Baney, who had two cards for his MLB tenure, yet they were five years apart:

Baney spent parts of three seasons in the Big Leagues, 1969 with those one-year wonders the Seattle Pilots, and then two consecutive seasons with the Cincinnati reds in 1973 and 1974.
He appeared in nine games for his first taste of the Majors in 1969, going 1-0 over 18.2 innings of work for Seattle with a 3.86 ERA.
Back on a Big League mound in 1973, he went 2-1 over 11 appearances with a nice 2.93 ERA in 30.2 innings, following it up a year later with a 1-0 record, though sporting a bloated 5.49 ERA in 22 appearances and 41 innings pitched.
After a couple of Minor League seasons in 1975 and 1979, he called it a career, finishing up with a 4-1 record and a 4.28 ERA in 42 appearances and 90.1 innings pitched.
Always fun to see quirky stuff like this, even decades later!