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.