Up on the blog today is a “not so missing” 1970 card for a guy whose career was already completed, former pitcher Mel Nelson:
Nelson played the last of his Big League games in 1969 with eight games
as a St. Louis Cardinal, going 0-1 with a bloated 11.81 earned run
average in 5.1 innings of work.
Originally up to the Majors in 1960 as a 24-year-old with St. Louis, he
went on to pitch parts of six seasons over the next decade with the
Cardinals, Los Angeles Angels and Minnesota Twins between 1960 and 1969.
By the time he hung up the cleats in 1969, he finished with a career
record of 4-10 over 93 appearances, with an ERA of 4.40 over 173.2
innings, with five saves and a complete game along the way.
