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Originally Posted by Cusick
Are you sure that these guys were actually called up to the major league club and brought with the team? I haven't been able to confirm them using historical newspapers or the listing of "Sharman Society" players on baseball-reference.com (the website doesn't use that term).
The attached article is from the Arizona Republic of October 27, 1978, and pertains to Mike Glinatsis. It still considers him to be an AA level player, but implies plans for him to be on the San Francisco Giants 1979 spring roster. I'm wondering if that's what you picked up. The move for these five guys onto the 40-man winter roster which would carry over into the spring.
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Cusick is correct. This was a common practice in the 60s and 70s. Players would be "called up" in September--in that they were added to the 40-man roster for the winter--and instructed not to report until the spring. A good sportswriter would note the distinction....
"Joe Blow was called up and instructed to report to the team in February"...but a Transaction report would just note that they'd been called-up. In these cases, they are generally not accepted as having been on the major league roster unless they appeared in a game or were listed as active in a game program.
That said, there could still be images of them in team garb if they remained on the 40-man roster into Spring Training the following year.