Kusnyer played the last nine games of his Major League career in 1978 for the Western Division champion Royals, batting .231 with three hits over 13 at-bats, one of them a home run.
It was his first action in the Big Leagues since 1976 when he appeared in 15 games for the Milwaukee Brewers, a triumph of sorts since he last played in the Majors before THAT in 1973 with the California Angels.
In 1972 he played in 64 games for California, with 198 plate appearances, yet Topps left him out of the 1973 set, leading to my “missing” creation mentioned earlier.
All told, Kusnyer appeared in 139 games during his six-year career, beginning in 1970 with the Chicago White Sox before moving on to the Angels where he played the bulk of his MLB tenure.
He finished with a career average of .176 with 55 hits over 313 at-bats, with three homers and 21 runs batted in.
