Thursday, March 19, 2020

NOT REALLY MISSING IN ACTION- 1971 JIM CAMPANIS

Time to go and give former Major League catcher Jim Campanis a “not so missing” 1971 card for his handful of games for the Kansas City Royals during the 1970 season:


Campanis appeared in 31 games for the Royals in what was only their second season as a Major league team, collecting seven hits over 54 at-bats for a forgettable .130 batting average.
Originally with the Los Angeles Dodgers between 1966 and 1968, he moved on the Kansas City for their inaugural season of 1969 followed by 1970, be fore putting in Minor League time until he made it all the way back in 1973 for six games with the Pittsburgh Pirates.
Funny enough, Topps decided those six games was good enough for a slot in their 1974 set, which I wrote about a long time ago on this blog, almost seven years ago:

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