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Originally Posted by Jim65
I would bet with modern sets trying to put as many baseball draft picks and pre-rookies, there are probably quite a few out there who never made the majors.
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Have to agree with the last 20 to 25 years must have produced many times the amount of cards by major companies for guys who never played a lick of MLB.
When I was in college in Oneonta in 2006-2007 and bounced at a bar I was friends with Jon Connolly who was named the Tigers Minor League Pitcher of the year in 2003. When I went over to one of the bar tender’s house he had one of Jon’s Topps cards hanging on his fridge. Jon made it as high as AAA but never played in the majors. The only way he probably could have made it is as a lefty specialist out the pen. He wound up with a dead arm and needed surgery about a year after he was named the Tigers minor league pitcher of the year in 2003 and from what I remember his fastball was only 85 and he lived off his off speed pitch ala Chris Hammond.
Jon wound up having a few cards by Topps and Bowman including things like Refractos. Since this is the Vintage forum here is one of his cards in the 55 Bowman style.