Today’s
blog post has a “not so missing” 1974 card for outfielder Tony Scott,
who made his Major League debut in 1973 with the Montreal Expos:
Scott, who would go on to play eleven seasons in the Big Leagues, went
0-1 at the plate with two runs scored for the Expos in his debut season,
while stealing a base and collecting a walk.
He’d see pretty much the same action in 1974, but this time he’d collect
two hits over seven at-bats, hitting .286 with five more stolen bases
and 19 runs scored.
Turns out after a couple of “cups of coffee” with Montreal in 1973 and
1974, Scott played in 92 games in 1975, good for 159 plate appearances
with 26 hits over 143 at-bats, giving him a .182 average.
He’d miss the 1976 season stuck in the Minors, but then go on to play on
through to 1984 in the Big Leagues after appearing in 45 games with,
who else, the Montreal Expos.
In between he played for the St. Louis Cardinals and Houston Astros,
giving him an 11-year career that saw him bat .249 with 699 hits in 2803
at-bats, playing in 991 games before his career ended.