REVISITING A POST FROM 2017: NOT REALLY MISSING 1972 RIMP LANIER

Today we revisit a post from 2017, a really fun "not really missing" 1972 card for six-game Major Leaguer Rimp Lanier of the Pittsburgh Pirates:

Originally posted on February 3rd of 2017, here's the write-up as it appeared back then:

"Today’s “not really” missing card is a 1972 edition featuring the Pittsburgh Pirates Rimp Lanier, whose whole Major League career encompassed six games in 1971, with four hitless at-bats.

Lanier’s entire MLB experience was as a pinch-hitter, and while he never collected a hit, he did get on base once by a hit-by-pitch.
That would be it for the 22-year-old, although he did get to play on a world champion team as the Pirates went on to beat the Baltimore Orioles that year and win it all.
Not bad!"

NOT REALLY MISSING IN ACTION- 1972 RIMP LANIER

Today’s “not really” missing card is a 1972 edition featuring the Pittsburgh Pirates Rimp Lanier, whose whole Major League career encompassed six games in 1971, with four hitless at-bats:

Lanier’s entire MLB experience was as a pinch-hitter, and while he never collected a hit, he did get on base once by a hit-by-pitch.
That would be it for the 22-year-old, although he did get to play on a world champion team as the Pirates went on to beat the Baltimore Orioles that year and win it all.
Not bad!

RANDOM QUICKIE: 1972 LUKE WALKER CARD

Just one of those things I caught as I was going through cards.

Check out the 1972 Topps Luke Walker card:

I noticed the player in the background on the left of the card, number 48, and decided to look him up and see who he was.

Turns out it was Rimp Lanier, a player who had a total Major League career of six games and five plater appearances in September of 1971, never to be seen again.

Kind of cool that he somehow made it onto a card, even IF it was in the background.

He went 0-4 with a strikeout and a hit-by-pitch during his call-up, and pinch ran once, before settling back into the Minor Leagues for the next couple of years.

By the time he was 24 he was out of professional ball for good.

Love spotting stuff like this all these years later!