1976 REDO OF ONE OF MY OWN- TOM EGAN

Anytime I use a non-Topps photo for a card I always look to “correct” it later on with the genuine article, like today for former California Angels catcher Tom Egan:

I originally used a non-Topps photo for Egan and a 1976 “not so missing” card a while back, and although it was fine, I like using the “real-deal” so much more. Lucky to find this one.
Egan was just coming off the last games of his Big League career in 1975 that saw him appear in 28 games for the Angels, who seemed to use DOZENS of catchers during the decade.
He hit .229 for the Halos that year, collecting 16 hits over 70 at-bats with seven runs scored and three runs batted in, with three doubles and a triple.
Turns out that was it for him in the Majors, retiring shortly after without even some Minor League games before calling it a career.
He originally came up to the Big Leagues back in 1965 as a 19-year-old with the Angels, appearing in 18 games and hitting .263.
He’d go on to play parts of the five years with the Angels, never more than 79 games (1970) before going on to play for the Chicago White Sox in 1971/1972.
After a year in the Minors, he was back with the Angels in 1974, playing in 43 games before that last season of 1975, finishing up with a career .200 batting average after collecting 196 hits in 979 at-bats spread out over  373 games.

MISSING IN ACTION- 1976 TOM EGAN

Here is yet ANOTHER of those Angels’ catchers who could have gotten a card during the 1970’s, Tom Egan:

Egan joins the incredibly long list of California catchers like Jeff Torborg, Charlie Sands, Ike Hampton, John Stephenson and Art Kusnyer who have received customs from this blog!
Talk about your revolving door!
For Egan, he put in eight years with the Angels with two with the Chicago White Sox squeezed in, playing his last Major League games in 1975 when he appeared in 28 games, batting .229 with 16 hits over 70 at-bats.
That would give him an even .200 batting average over ten seasons, with 196 hits in 979 at-bats in 373 games, all but one at the catching position (he appeared as a first baseman once in 1971).
What exactly WERE those Angels doing with their catchers during the 1970’s? So many it’s amazing...