Today on the blog we have a career-capping 1975 “not so missing” card for former Big League pitcher John Cumberland, who made it back to a Major League mound in 1974 after spending all of 1973 in the Minors:
Cumberland, who last pitched for the St. Louis Cardinals in 1972, was
now a California Angel, and appeared in 17 games during the 1974
campaign, in what ended up being the last action he’d see in his MLB
career.
Over those 17 games, Cumberland went 0-1 with an ERA of 3.74, all out of
the bullpen, throwing 21.2 innings, walking 10 and striking out 12.
Originally up in 1968 as a member of the New York Yankees, Cumberland
also pitched for the San Francisco Giants in addition to St. Louis and
California, finishing up with a record of 15-16, with an ERA of 3.82
over 110 appearances and 334.1 innings, with 36 starts, two shutouts and
two saves.
