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Tom Kane 1938
A 31-year-old rookie called up to the Boston Bees in midseason 1938 to serve as a utilityman, Tom Kane came in at 2nd Base in the fifth inning of a Boston loss to the Pirates on August 3. He grounded out, then walked. Ten days later Casey Stengel again sent Kane in for starter Tony Cuccinello; this time he hit into a double play and then got a second walk - and that was it.
On August 18 the Bees sent Kane to Chattanooga to complete a deal for another prospect. He drifted to the lower minors in 1939 and then left the game with - if nothing else - a career MLB On Base Average of .500.
Kane left almost no photos behind him; none has ever appeared with him in a Boston uniform. One image has been pulled off Newspapers.Com and posted here and at Baseball-Reference and it's abysmal. I went hunting for better and found a couple of decent ones and touched them up on Remini and MyHeritage; perhaps others can improve them further.
The portrait (in which he looks startlingly like '30s Louisiana Governor Huey Long) is from The Scranton Tribune of July 21, 1937. The team photo shot is from The State (of Columbia, South Carolina) from April 20,1936. The full length pose is from The Columbia Record of May 19, 1936, and the batting shot from the same paper from April 18, 1936.
They're not much but they're about 4000% better than what we've had.
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