Up on the blog today we have a career-capping “not so missing” 1978 card for former Boston Red Sox infielder Doug Griffin, who finished up an eight-year Big League career with a handful of games in 1977:
Griffin, who spent seven of his eight seasons with the Red Sox, appeared
in only five games for Boston in 1977, going 0-6 at the plate.
At one point the starting second baseman for the Red Sox between 1971
and 1973, even taking home a Gold Glove in 1972, he then played about
half of Boston’s games between 1974 and 1976 after suffering some
injuries including two beanings, one at the hand of Nolan Ryan, then
another by Dick Bosman.
By the time he left the game in 1977 he finished up with a career .245
batting average, with 524 hits and 209 runs scored over 632 games and
2136 at-bats.
