Up
on the blog today I give you an admittedly odd “not so missing” card,
this one a 1975 edition for former San Francisco Giant infielder Damaso
Blanco, who played the last of his brief MLB career during the 1974
season:
Now, I don’t know exactly what was going on with this image, but
nevertheless I decided to use it for the card here, closing out what was
a three-year Big League career that saw him hit .212 over 72 games and
33 at-bats, with seven hits and nine runs scored between 1972 and 1974,
all for the Giants.
A career Minor Leaguer, he originally became a pro back in 1961 at the
age of 19 before toiling through the Giants system until his big break
in 1972 at the age of 30.
His career was played entirely for the San Francisco organization, with
only those three partial years in the Majors mentioned above, totaling
14 years as a professional.