Larry Yount was also my answer. Since he was called over the PA and he was officially inserted into the game, he is listed in baseball reference as having played in one official game. But he did get hurt warming up and was never to return. Didnt know he had a card. Back in the day, topps would make tons of cards of up and commings who never made it. I think MLB(Selig) got involved because of people couldnt figure out which card was each players real rookie card(kind of sounds like our over-involved gov't) and stopped topps from making cards of players in their base set until they have played in a game. Someone may know or have a better explanation than mine.
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