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Has card but never played
I was wondering if we might compile a list of players that had a baseball card in any Major League set that never played even one game in the majors. I know that the 1953 and 1955 Topps sets might have some but I don't know of any off hand. Does anyone know of any?
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I have seen articles on players who played a fair amount and never had a card, and on players who appeared on cards with teams they never played on, but not on this. I seem to recall there are some in the Topps 52 set when Topps was scrambling to find anyone not exclusively signed to Bowman to put on their cards.
There are a bunch of those umpires in the 55 Bowman set when they were on the way out and looking for anyone to fill out their last set Good topic Last edited by ALR-bishop; 11-15-2017 at 09:09 AM. |
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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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Last edited by Chuck9788; 11-15-2017 at 08:30 AM. |
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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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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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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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Head scratchers
Georj - Even more puzzling, how about cards of guys in the Baseball HOF who never played a game?
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I just learned of the things Alexander Cartwright gave to baseball when I watched part of the first installment of Ken Burns' Baseball yesterday. Very fascinating learning about the early history of the game and how it came about. Now I want to sit and watch more of that episode and the rest of the series.
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There's probably quite a few!
Here's another: 1951 Hage's Dairy Al Olsen. The card shows him as a Cleveland Indian. He spent most of his time in the PCL, and never had a regular season major league at bat with the Tribe.
Image is not my card!
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Theres a San Diego Chicken card.....
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