The next player up on my ongoing "1976 Project" for "Reader Jim" is former pitcher Gene Pentz of the Detroit Tigers.
Take a look at the card:
Though his actual rookie card would be in the 1977 set as a Houston
Astro, Pentz did in fact pitch in 13 games during the 1975 season for
the Detroit Tigers, good for 25.1 innings of work, so we went ahead and
created a card for him in the awesome 1976
set.
For the season he posted a 0-4 record with a 3.20 earned run average and 21 strikeouts.
He'd go on to pitch the next three years with Houston, but would be out of the Majors after 10 games in 1978.
His career numbers: 8-9 record, with a 3.63 E.R.A., seven saves and 116 strikeouts in 104 games and 191 innings.
