I noticed on baseball-reference the other day that Buzz Stephen had died recently. The name vaguely rang a bell but I wasn't sure why. It turns out I had just come across his name while working on the latest One-Card Wonders post for this blog. That's life in my addled state, a name that sounds vaguely familiar isn't from 40 years ago, it's from the last couple of weeks. I was going through the 1970 and 1971 sets to find players who appeared in those sets for their one-and-only card. I wanted to include 1972 as well, because each of these sets are large and I wanted to see if there were more one-card wonders in these sets (I've done 1969 already, another large set, but it produced a rather small total of five). But I ran out of time for '72. Stephen is one of five one-card wonders in the 1970 set -- so same total as '69. Somewhat unexpectedly, he's the only Pilot OCW, although on further thought a team with such a limited history would have playe...
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