Minor League Baseball Players

[PinsonHOF]

9 year minor league veteran Bobby Miscik is pictured here as a 1982 Buffalo Bison in the worst misspellings I have ever seen on a card. As you can see its not even close. Miscik spent 7 of this professional seasons in the Pirates organization where he was a solid if unspectacular middle infielder with occasional power.

Miscik spent his last 6 campaigns at AAA without ever receiving a callup. I must ask : Is their a spring training photo out there of Miscik with the Pirates or with the Angels (his final employer) ? If you can find this you have my sincere appreciation. Bobby has a brother Dennis a lefthander who pitched in the Astros, Pirates, Royals, and Phillies organizations also reaching Triple A. Dennis Miscik would serve as a long term athletic director at his alma mater Indiana University of Pennsylvania. The Baseball Cube revealed that the Miscik brothers are natives of Calumet, Pennsylvania.








https://www.baseball-reference.com/r...d=miscik001rob

[PinsonHOF]

Here is southpaw Dennis Miscik as a Cocoa Beach Astro 1977. Miscik in later years would become a very successful high school baseball coach at Mount Pleasant H.S.. Pennsylvania. Included is a Where Are They Now article from his alma mater Indiana University of Pennsylvania.


https://iupathletics.com/news/2017/3...-they-now.aspx


https://www.baseball-reference.com/r...d=miscik001den

[Cusick]

The only major league spring camp Bobby Miscik attended was with the 1986 Pirates, when he was on their spring roster. I don't have a photo of him in a Pirates' uniform.

Dennis Miscik was a non-roster invitee to the Houston Astros' spring camp in 1980. I also lack a photo of Dennis in a major league uniform, although I have a Tucson Toros baseball card of him in which he's wearing an Astros' jacket. If you want that posted, let me know.

[bobw]

I believe Dennis is a Fritsch and Bob is a Vault

[PinsonHOF]

Thank you Cusick. Yes, I would like to see that photo when you have a free moment. I appreciate it!

[PinsonHOF]

I'm looking for an image of former Cub 1st Rd Pick (1974) Eric Grandy . So far all Google and card database searches have come up empty. Grandy had a very fine season in the Texas League 1979 hitting .305 with 45 SB and an .843 OPS. Then he's in the Mexican League in '81. His baseball career over at 26. I suspect Grandy had a severe leg injury in 1980 and lost his wheels.



https://www.baseball-reference.com/r...d=grandy001eri

[PinsonHOF]

Great images thank you.

[Cusick]

Originally Posted by PinsonHOF

I'm looking for an image of former Cub 1st Rd Pick (1974) Eric Grandy . So far all Google and card database searches have come up empty. Grandy had a very fine season in the Texas League 1979 hitting .305 with 45 SB and an .843 OPS. Then he's in the Mexican League in '81. His baseball career over at 26. I suspect Grandy had a severe leg injury in 1980 and lost his wheels.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/r...d=grandy001eri

Was able to find two photos of Grandy. Neither of them is a stellar shot. The first I think shows him in an Essex Community College uniform making a fielding play. It's from the Baltimore Evening Sun of January 10, 1974. The second shows him in a Midland, TX, uniform. It's from the Midland Reporter-Telegram of May 9, 1978.