NOT REALLY MISSING IN ACTION- 1974 RICH McKINNEY

Up on the blog today is a “not so missing” 1974 card for infielder Rich McKinney, who I’ve already created a 1978 career-capper for a few years back:

McKinney appeared in 48 games for the champion Oakland A’s during the 1973 season, hitting .246 with 16 hits in 65 at-bats in limited play.
He would go on to appear in only 13 combined games over the next two seasons before spending all of 1976 in the Minors, but would come back in 1977 to play in 86 games for Oakland, which turned out to be the last Big League action of his seven-year career.
When it was all said and done, McKinney finished with a .225 batting average, with 199 hits in 886 at-bats over 341 games, with 20 homers and exactly 100 runs batted in and 79 runs scored.
Of course we’ll also remember that McKinney got two straight classic airbrush jobs on his Topps cards in 1972 and 1973, which I profiled years ago on the blog:

http://whentoppshadballs.blogspot.com/2014/09/an-all-time-classic-airbrush-job-1973.html

http://whentoppshadballs.blogspot.com/2013/09/when-airbrushing-goes-terribly-wrong.html

Classics!