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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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My favorite is Jack Parks, he had a 1955 Topps base card AND a 1955 Topps Double-Header card but never appeared in a major league game.
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Angel Scull in the 54 Topps Set comes to mind. Many players in the 2/3 or more rookie cards never played in the majors
My personal favorite is the 1964 Topps Archie Skeen (#423 or so IIRC) card with this biographical nugget: Archie has retired to become a school teacher. Thus ended the Archie Skeen investment club Rich
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Sadly, it seems he recently left us: http://www.myers-mortuary.com/obitua...ity-UT/1732213 RIP Mr. Skeen.
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This website
http://www.jaytysver.com/bb-cards.html? has a list a players who played in the major leagues and a separate list with players with cards. If you compare these in a database program you will get some information. I this was updated in 2015 I think the author is board member. This file is a work of art |
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Chris Haas has a 1996 Topps rookie card with Scott Rolen. He was drafted by the Cardinals but never played. I mention him because he lives about 10 or 15 minutes from me. I work for the electric company and I had to replace his electric meter back a couple of months ago. He wasn't home, but I talked to his wife. She thought it was really cool that I had his baseball card.
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My alltime favorite:
That's the Angels bat-boy Leonard Garcia...
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Steve Dalkowski is another interesting one, he is on a 1963 Topps high number that has a premium because of him even though he never played a major league game. The legend is that he could throw a baseball in excess of 110 mph, estimated because there were no radar guns back then. He was virtually unhittable, but he was so wild that he gave up just as many walks as strikeouts. The Orioles were going to bring him up to the big leagues for the beginning of the 1963 season but he blew his arm out in a preseason exhibition game against the Yankees. He was never the same after that and lingered in the minors for a few more years before giving up professional baseball.
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Brien Taylor!
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Just for kicks, I thought I would post the other Bat-Boy stand-in card (at least, the only other one known to me): s-l1600.jpg
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How about some of the Olympic cards in 1985 Topps?
Sid Akins (played til 89 in minors) Flavio Alfaro (one year of A ball, hit .193) Bob Caffrey (few years in Expos system) |
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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. Last edited by Mephisto; 01-07-2018 at 03:26 PM. |
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How many bars do they have in Oneonta?
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Not as many as there used to be. Long before I went there were a ton. I think the drinking age going from 18 to 21 killed off the numbers. In the 10 years since I graduated most of the bars I knew closed or closed and reopened with new names. The vast majority of the bars still open are not open during the summer when college is out.
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