"NOT REALLY MISSING IN ACTION"- 1975 BOBBY FLOYD

Up on the blog today we have a career-capping "not so missing" 1975 card for former infielder Bobby Floyd, who played the last of his Big League games during the 1974 season:

Floyd appeared in 10 games for Kansas City in 1974, going 1-for-9 at the plate while playing second, short and third.

Originally up as a Baltimore Oriole in 1968, he'd play for the O's two years before finding himself in Kansas City in 1970, where he'd play the final five years of his career.

I also created a "missing" 1973 card for him back in 2015, wondering why Topps left him out of that set after he saw the most action he'd see in any of his MLB seasons, 61 games.

Yet Topps gave him cards in 1970, 1971, 1972 and 1974, after much LESS action the previous seasons. Go figure!

He was out of the Major Leagues after the 1974 season, and his final numbers were: a .219 batting average with 93 hits, 18 doubles and a triple over 425 at-bats in 214 games.

 

 

MISSING IN ACTION- 1973 BOBBY FLOYD

Here was a fun card to create and go over for the blog: a 1973 "missing" card for infielder Bobby Floyd.

Check out the card first:

The reason I found this card interesting is because Floyd has a card in 1970, 1971, 1972 and 1974, yet the most action he ever saw in his seven-year career was in 1972, which means that the ONE year he didn't get a card was after the most action he had in any season!

How on earth does that happen?

In 1972 Floyd appeared in 61 games, good for 140 plate appearances.

After that the most he ever got up to bat was in 1969 when he had 94 plate appearances.

After his 61 games in 1972 the most he ever played in was 51 the following year in 1973.

As long as I live I just can never figure out the selection process implemented by Topps for their card sets.

In that 1972 season Floyd played just about equal games at third base and shortstop, 30 at third and 29 at short, so I went ahead and had him as a third baseman on the card.

Originally up as a Baltimore Oriole in 1968, he'd play for the O's two years before finding himself in Kansas City in 1970, where he'd play the final five years of his career.

He was out of the Major Leagues after the 1974 season, and his final numbers were: a .219 batting average with 93 hits, 18 doubles and a triple over 425 at-bats in 214 games.