Today’s blog post
has a career-capping “not so missing” 1971 card for former New York
Yankees pitcher Joe Verbanic, who played the last of his Big League
games during the 1970 season:
Verbanic appeared in
seven games for the Yankees that season, making it back to the Majors
after spending all of 1969 in the Minors, posting a record of 1-0 with a
4.60 earned run average over 15.2 innings
of work.
Originally up in
1966 as a member of the Philadelphia Phillies when he went 1-1 with a
5.14 ERA over 17 appearances and 14 innings, he spent the next two years
with the Yankees, going a combined 10-10 with
an ERA around 3.00 in 177 innings pitched.
He would go on to
spend all of 1971 and 1972 in the Minors, for both the Yanks and
Phillies organizations, but never get a shot back at a Big League mound
again, finishing with a record of 12-11, with an ERA
of 3.26 in 207 innings pitched, with three complete games, two shutouts
and six saves picked up along the way.
