Charles Louis Liebrandt, Jr.

Played in five World Series games. Lost four of them. Should've lost the fifth. That doesn't mean he was a bad pitcher, he just didn't quite have the right luck. He did, however, play in two of the most amazing WS Game Sixes ever. The game that he should have lost, in the 1985 series, turned instead thanks to a guy named Denkinger. That last inning had it all, by the way. A man named Orta batting for a man named Motley, and a game winning RBI by a man named Dane Iorg. No kidding. Dane had a brother named Garth. Party on Dane. Party on Garth. Ahem. But that's not to say Liebrandt pitched poorly in that game, he only gave up one run.

Then there was 1991. That was a game six as well. I think Jack Buck said it best: We'll see ya tomorrow night!

Oddly enough the Braves gave him the ball in game six of the 1992 World Series. Even though Avery'd gone 8 and struck out 9 in game three. They lost. I think game six just wasn't Charlie's game, overall. He sure does make that baby blue uniform look good, though.

Not much to the back of this card. It's like Donruss saw what Topps was doing with the crazy verbs, and opted wisely to stay out of that arena. They're the Joe Friday to Topps's Pep Streebeck. Just the facts, ma'am. Did you know that Akroyd had a role in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom? I can't place him in the movie. I know I'm digressing, but there's nothing else on the card to talk about.

Ok, ok, it says here he was traded for a guy named Bob Tufts. And according to Baseball-Reference, Liebrandt wasn't even playing in 1983 when the trade happened. So did the Reds trade a guy who was injured for a crappy reliever? Seems odd. But I don't feel like researching it. So there.