Thursday, April 23, 2009

1989 Topps Major League Debut #53: Mike Hartley



Mike Hartley

PHOTO: Wow, this is a rarity. It's pretty unusual to see entire trees in card backgrounds that are not palm trees.

STAT: Hartley has one of the most recent seasons with at least one shutout and one save while pitching no more than 80 total innings.

CAREER: 2/10

Hartley was late to the bigs, not appearing until age 27. Despite pitching pretty well in his last few years, he was done by age 33.

2 comments:

  1. That photo is hilarious! He looks like he's standing in either an all-dirt Little League infield or in the parking lot of a southern biker bar. The kind where you get punched in the face for asking where the bathroom is.

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  2. I wish I could wager on these things; before I even clicked on your link of players with "one shutout and one save" I said to myself 'sounds like something terry leach did' and not only is he on the list, he's on there twice.

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