NOT REALLY MISSING IN ACTION- 1978 SKIP JAMES

Time to go and give two-year Major League first baseman Skip James a “not so missing” 1978 card for his first taste of the Big Leagues the previous season:

James came up to the Majors for 10 games during the 1977 season, hitting .267 with both three runs scored and driven in.
The following year he’d appear in 41 games for the San Francisco Giants, though hitting only .095 with two hits over 21 at-bats.
Well, as quickly as he came in, he was out, as those aforementioned games represent the sum total of his Major League career, as he would spend all of 1979 in the Minor Leagues with the Milwaukee Brewers organization before calling it a day.
All told, James hit .167 over the course of his 51 game career, with six hits in 36 at-bats, driving in six with eight runs scored.

NOT REALLY MISSING IN ACTION- 1979 SKIP JAMES

Here’s a 1979 card for two-year Major League first baseman Skip James, who played for the San Francisco Giants during the 1977 and 1978 seasons:

During the 1978 season James batted .095 with two hits over 21 at-bats, scoring five runs while driving in three over 41 games.
That would be the last Major League action he’d see in his brief career, as he’d spend the 1979 season in the Milwaukee Brewers minor league system before playing out his pro career in Japan for the Yokohama Taiyo Whales in 1980.