The Most Obscure Carded Baseball Player in History

[timn1]

Irv never even played in a single major league game, yet somehow made it into the T207 set to give its collectors fits and nightmares-

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[frohme]

Thanks, Tim!

So many of the others shown here are clearly appropriate for the thread ... but I was wondering when Mr Lewis would make an appearance ... then I guess he never did, did he . Not the most obscure of cards, but from a playing perspective, he's got to be at or near the top (or bottom).

Wonderful example of a pain in many collector's side(s).

--
Mike

[PolarBear]

Cool thread!

Maybe a Karl Spongberg card will turn up someday.

[JollyElm]

If we're including post-war, it's gotta be this guy…

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[Collectorsince62]

1954 Bowman Memo Luna. Started and played in one game. Faced six batters and quickly vanished into obscurity. Two walks, two doubles, two fly outs (one was a sac fly) and a career ERA of 27.00.

Ironically he lost that game to Joe Nuxhall, who had a similarly disastrous debut, exiting his first big league game at the age of fifteen with an ERA of 67.50.

[RaidonCollects]

Originally Posted by Collectorsince62

1954 Bowman Memo Luna. Started and played in one game. Faced six batters and quickly vanished into obscurity. Two walks, two doubles, two fly outs (one was a sac fly) and a career ERA of 27.00.

Ironically he lost that game to Joe Nuxhall, who had a similarly disastrous debut, exiting his first big league game at the age of fifteen with an ERA of 67.50.

He actually had a 1952 Mother's Cookies card too.

~Owen

[Spike]

Ernest Thompson Cox appeared in one game and pitched one inning for the 1922 Chicago White Sox, a team that shuttled 18 pitchers through their roster during the season. But thanks to his appearance in a big league uniform near a photographer, he made it into the E126 American Caramel set 5 years later. As far as we know, his pro career ended with that inning, Ernie having last played in the minors some years earlier.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/pl.../coxer01.shtml

Furthermore, thanks to his name similarity to Elmer Joseph "Dick" Cox, this E126 card appears on Beckett.com checklists as Dick Cox, despite Dick only ever playing for the Dodgers.

http://www.beckett.com/baseball/1927...ck-cox-3542695

Two obscurities, one card. I wrote a little more about it for the #5 blog.

http://www.number5typecollection.com...-5-et-cox.html