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Glen Hobbie 1957 (in 1964)
Another career-ending cameo where one of the images has floated around for years - but a poor copy - but the other one is new to online collections.
Glen Hobbie was in the Cubs' rotation from 1958 until early in 1964, a workhorse who started 165 games and threw 11 shutouts in Chicago. Then on June 2 he went to the Cardinals for Lew Burdette in the second of three deals the Cubs made for veteran St. Louis pitchers in a season-and-a-half. In the first the Cubs had packaged slugger George Altman and pitcher Don Cardwell to St. Louis for Larry Jackson and Lindy McDaniel. Then came the Hobbie for Burdette swap. Finally, two weeks later, the Cubs made the deal they were certain had given them the veteran twirler who would put them over the top: Ernie Broglio. It only cost them Lou Brock.
Hobbie made only 13 appearances for the Cards and was sent to AAA when the Cards promoted veteran knuckleball reliever Barney Shultz who - as much as Brock - put them in position to win the pennant when the Phillies pholded. That winter the Cards dealt Hobbie to the Tigers and he was in Spring Training with them in '65 but never again pitched in the majors.
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