For
the second day in a row here on the blog, I offer up a “not so missing”
card for a player who appeared in one single solitary game the previous
season, this time it’s a 1971 card for former outfielder Joe Nossek,
who did just that for the St. Louis Cardinals in 1970:
Nossek appeared in what turned out to be the last game of his six-year
Big League career on September 13th of the 1970 season, going 0-1 at the
plate, closing out a MLB tenure that had him hit .228 over 295 games,
collecting 132 hits in 579 at-bats playing for the Minnesota Twins,
Kansas City/Oakland Athletics and Cardinals between 1964 and 1970.
Generally a part-time player, the most action he ever saw in any one
season was the 91 appearances he made in 1966 when he played in four
with the Twins before going off to play in 87 games with the Athletics,
with 241 plate appearances and hitting .261.