Here’s
a career-capping “not so missing” 1971 card for former pitcher Fred
Talbot, who made one last appearance in a Major League game during the
1970 season:
Talbot threw 1.2 innings on June 14th, 1970, giving up a couple of runs
on a homer against the Baltimore Orioles, closing out a nice eight year
career that began in 1963 when he came up with the Chicago White Sox as a
22-year-old.
He would go on to play for Chicago, Oakland/Kansas City, the New York
Yankees and the Seattle Pilots over those eight seasons, compiling a
record of 38-56, with an earned run average of 4.12 over 195
appearances, with 126 of them starts, as well as four shutouts and
collected a save in that time, with 26 complete games and 853.2 innings
pitched.