NOT REALLY MISSING IN ACTION: 1976 JOE NOLAN

On the blog this fine day we have a "not so missing" 1976 card for former MLB catcher Joe Nolan, who made it back to the Majors with four games for the Atlanta Braves:

Nolan made his Big League debut in 1972 with the New York Mets, appearing in four games for them at the age of 21.

Nolan went 0-10 at the plate over that first taste of the Big Leagues, but he’d do a bit better than that over the course of what turned out to be a nice 11-year career spanning 1972 and 1985 as a catcher off the bench, mainly for the Atlanta Braves and Baltimore Orioles, with stints for the Mets and Cincinnati Reds.

For the Braves in 1975 he'd go 1-for-4 at the plate, his first hit being a single, before spending all of 1976 in the Minors and making it back for good in 1977.
By the time he retired after the 1985 season he finished with a .263 career average, with 382 hits over 1454 at-bats in 621 games.
He was also a member of the 1983 World Champion Orioles, contributing nicely with a .277 batting average while filling in behind the plate for Rick Dempsey.

 

NOT REALLY MISSING IN ACTION- 1973 JOE NOLAN

Here’s a 1973 “not so missing” card for former catcher Joe Nolan, who started his career with four games during the 1972 season before eventually getting his first Topps card years later in the 1978 set:

Nolan went 0-10 at the plate over that first taste of the Big Leagues, but he’d do a bit better than that over the course of what turned out to be a nice 11-year career spanning 1972 and 1985 as a catcher off the bench, mainly for the Atlanta Braves and Baltimore Orioles, with stints for the Mets and Cincinnati Reds.
By the time he retired after the 1985 season he finished with a .263 career average, with 382 hits over 1454 at-bats in 621 games.
He was also a member of the 1983 World Champion Orioles, contributing nicely with a .277 batting average while filling in behind the plate for Rick Dempsey.