Last year, I added the 1975 Herb Washington card with the position of "Pinch Runner" into my collection. It's the only card ever issued with that designation.
Over the weekend, I was looking through drawers and I came across this card.
Yup. That's a position of pinch hitter listed on this 1992 Donruss Jose Tolentino. As best as my googling can tell me, there isn't any other card with that position listed. The closest I could find was a card that proclaimed Candy Maldonado as the Pinch Hitter of the year, but that's it.
When one looks at Jose's baseball reference page, he's also listed as a pinch hitter there, as well as a first baseman. His 1991 debut (his only season) was as a 30 year old rookie. His only big league cards were this one and his 1992 Topps ones. And he's still in baseball as a broadcaster.
I'm probably the only person on the planet that considers this card worthy of a hard toploader, but it will go nicely beside the Herb Washington in the box.
You'll never see that designation on an AL player's card.
ReplyDeleteI have an other card stating that position. Let me just check my list and I'll show you ;)
ReplyDeleteI found it! It's 1992 Leef series 2 card #389 Dave Hansen. The card states his positions being PH/3B. That is the closest I could get to a Pinch-Hitter card ;)
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