Literally just realized I already created a 1970 card for former Tigers player Wayne Redmond, but it's 4:29AM and I'm not about to draw up another entry for the blog, so here's a "2nd Variation" for the nine-game Major Leaguer,
who appeared in five of those nine games during the 1969, his last
taste of the Big Show:
Redmond first appeared in a Major League mound in 1965 as a 19-year-old,
going hitless in four at-bats while scoring a run over four games.
After toiling in the Minors for a few years he made it back in 1969 and
was used solely as a pinch-hitter, though he ended up going 0-for-3 with
two strikeouts.
It would be the last time he’d appear in a Big League game, as he’d go
on to play Minor League ball through the 1973 season, but never get a
chance to get that first MLB hit.
All told he finished hitless over seven at-bats in nine games, with a run and a walk thrown in.
I do remember him appearing on a multi-rookie 1971 card as a member of
the Philadelphia Phillies, his only appearance on a Topps card.
Here’s
a great card to add to my roster of missing-cards, a “not so missing” 1970
card for former outfielder Wayne Redmond of the Detroit Tigers, who
ended up sporting a brief nine game career spread over two seasons, the
last being 1969:
Redmond played what would turn out to be the last five games of his
career in ‘69, going 0-for-3 at the plate in pinch-hitting roles.
In 1965 he would see the only other Major League action of his career
when he was a September call-up and promptly went 0-for-4 with a walk
and a run scored in that time.
Curiously, he would actually have a Topps card, a shared multi-player
card in 1971, two years after his last MLB appearance, AND depicted as a
player on a team he wouldn’t end up playing for, Major or Minor, the
Philadelphia Phillies!
According to Baseball-Reference.com he stuck around in the Pros until
the 1973 season, playing for the Angels’, White Sox and Padres
organizations before leaving the game for good.
Love stuff like this!
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