Card for Player with Shortest Career

[Jlighter]

I would guess Moonlight Graham, but his case is unique.

[h2oya311]

It would have to be Eddie Gaedel!! He quite literally had the "shortest" time in the majors!!

1.000 career OBP ain't ba either!

[sycks22]

There was that guy who was hit in the head from the Marlins on his first AB and never made it back to the show until he made a campaign for himself last year. I think the mets picked him up this year.

[Seiklis]

Hal Stowe's up there with 1 game played for the Yankees in 1960 then for no good reason he got a card in 1962 Topps

[dacubfan]

How about Memo Luna 1954 Bowman #222 pitched 2/3 of an inning in one game for the Cardinals and took the loss in his only big league appearance.

[z28jd]

Emil Geiss got about five too many poses in the Old Judge set for his one start in the majors. One it which he gave up 17 hits and 11 runs.

[bbcard1]

Let's nominate Ray Ryan who was in the T206 with Roanoke among other sets. He was active with the 1908 White Sox, but never appeared in a game. He went on to become a prominent minor league manager and president of the Appalachian League.

[cardinalcollector]

1957 Omaha Cardinals

[Texxxx]

Larry Yount. He was a relief pitcher that started to warm up on the mound and hurt his arm. Never threw a pitch officially ever. Is that too short?

[I Only Smoke 4 the Cards]

Originally Posted by Texxxx

Larry Yount. He was a relief pitcher that started to warm up on the mound and hurt his arm. Never through a pitch officially ever. Is that too short?

Talk about disappointing.

[the 'stache]

Originally Posted by Texxxx

Larry Yount. He was a relief pitcher that started to warm up on the mound and hurt his arm. Never threw a pitch officially ever. Is that too short?

He was the one that immediately popped into my head.

[Brian Van Horn]

My nominee is Ollie Fuhrman. Six games:

For t206 fans, Hunky Shaw had one plate appearance for the Pittsburgh Pirates (0 for 1, one strikeout) in 1908.

[paul]

I can't name any off-hand, but I would think quite a few players made their way onto a Topps multi-player rookie card without ever appearing in a major league game. Also, in the early 90s, all the card companies started coming out with cards of "players" who had just finished high school and were sent to play Single A ball. It was part of the rush by the card companies to have the earliest pre-rookie card of promising young players. I'm sure that many of these guys never made it to the majors, but haven't done the research to identify any of them.