NOT REALLY MISSING IN ACTION- 1973 PETE LaCOCK

On the blog today, how about a 1973 “not so missing” card for Pete LaCock, who appeared in the first five games of his major league career during the 1972 season:

LaCock went 3-for-6 at the plate with four runs batted in during his brief action, with a stolen base and three runs scored. Dang, that is quite the “hello” to the Big Leagues.
The son of former TV personality Peter Marshall, he appeared in eleven games for the Chicago Cubs the following year, hitting .250 with four hits over 16 at-bats, driving in three runs, before coming back in 1974 with 35 games, hitting .182 with twenty hits in 110 at-bats.
In 1975 he’d finally get some real action in the Majors when he played in 106 games, hitting .229 with 57 hits in 249 at-bats, hitting six homers and driving in 30.
He would end up putting in nine years in the Big Leagues, splitting his career between the Cubs and Kansas City Royals, collecting 444 hits and batting .257 over 715 games.
Never truly a full-time player, the most action he’d see in any one season was 1979 when he played in 132 games, collecting 113 hits (the only time he went 100+ in a season), while hitting .277 over 453 plate appearances.
He capped off his pro career with a year in Japan during the 1981 season, playing for Taiyo and hitting .273 over 90 games before retiring, still only 29 years of age.