On the blog today, we have a career-capping "not so missing" 1970 card for former Big League infielder and Manager Chuck Cottier:
Cottier
played what turned out to be the last games of his nine-year playing
career in 1969, appearing in two games for the California Angels.
Over
those two games Cottier went 0-for-2 at the plate, with some time at
second base, calling it a career on the very day yours truly was born,
May 9th.
Originally up with the Milwaukee Braves in 1959 at
the age of 23, Cottier only saw one truly full-time season in the
Majors, that being in 1962 when he appeared in 136 games for the
Washington Senators, collecting 107 hits over 443 at-bats, good for a
.242 batting average.
He finished his playing career with a
.220 career average, with 348 hits over 1584 at-bats in 580 games, with
168 runs scored and 127 runs batted in.
He'd go into coaching
after his playing days were done, eventually getting a shot as manager
with the Seattle Mariners from 1984 to 1985, compiling a record of 98
and 119.
