Card for Player with Shortest Career

[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.

[Sean]

Originally Posted by 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.

I don't follow 1990s cards, but I think Michael Jordan appeared on a baseball card, and he never got higher than Double A.

[howard38]

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[stewbacca]

Larry Yount was also my answer. Since he was called over the PA and he was officially inserted into the game, he is listed in baseball reference as having played in one official game. But he did get hurt warming up and was never to return. Didnt know he had a card. Back in the day, topps would make tons of cards of up and commings who never made it. I think MLB(Selig) got involved because of people couldnt figure out which card was each players real rookie card(kind of sounds like our over-involved gov't) and stopped topps from making cards of players in their base set until they have played in a game. Someone may know or have a better explanation than mine.

[Jewish-collector]

In the recent era, it would be Adam Greenberg with the Cubs. He was hit by a pitch on the first pitch for his first time at bat. Then he came back last year with the Marlins & struck out. Lifetime 0 for 1. There are many different baseball cards of him.

[cmoore330]

I'm going with this guy:

http://www.amazon.com/Olbermann-Clos.../dp/B008REEPDE