Friday, August 30, 2019

NOT REALLY MISSING IN ACTION- 1978 DENNIS DeBARR

It’s always fun to create 1978 cards for the inaugural Toronto Blue Jays or Seattle Mariners, and today I present just that, a “not so missing” card for one-year Major League pitcher Dennis BeBarr of the Toronto Blue Jays:


DeBarr was picked by Toronto as the 26th overall selection in the Expansion Draft from the Detroit Tigers, who originally drafted him back in 1971.
He would make his Big League debut in May of 1977 and proceed to play in 14 games, going 0-1 with a 5.91 earned run average over 21.1 innings, all out of the bullpen.
Turns out those 14 games would be the only appearances for DeBarr in his Big League tenure, as he would go on to play another two seasons in the Cleveland, Chicago (NL) and Oakland Minor League systems before retiring after 1979.

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