NOT REALLY MISSING IN ACTION- 1977 BILLY CHAMPION

Up on the blog today we have a “not so missing” 1977 career-capper for former pitcher Billy Champion, who pitched the last of his Big League games during the 1976 season with the Milwaukee Brewers:

Champion appeared in 10 games for Milwaukee in 1976, going 0-1 with an ERA of 7.03 over 24.1 innings of work, three of those games starts.
He would spend all of 1977 in the Philadelphia Phillies Minor league system, but would retire by season’s end, putting in eight years in the Majors, split evenly between Philadelphia (1969-1972) and Milwaukee (1973-1976).
His finest season would easily be 1974 when he posted a record of 11-4 for Milwaukee, with a 3.62 ERA over 31 appearances and 23 starts.
All told he ended up with a record of 34-50, with a 4.69 earned run average over 202 appearances, 102 of which were starts, including three shutouts and a couple of saves.