Just
a fun card to create and post up today on the blog, an “action” card of
Cleveland Indians catcher Ray Fosse against the Boston Red Sox:
I can’t really determine what game this is, though the Indians played
the Red Sox in their second game of the 1976 season after opening up the
year against the Detroit Tigers for one game.
Anyone have an idea?
Fosse was enjoying a return to the Indians, the team he made his mark
with earlier in the decade when he made two All-Star teams and two Gold
Gloves in 1970 and 1971.
Of course, everyone remembers that play at the plate with Pete Rose in
the 1970 All-Star game which left him in agony after Rose plowed into
him trying to score.
Fosse would end up putting in 12 years as a Big League catcher, playing
through the 1979 season and finishing up with a career .256 batting
average, with those two Gold Gloves and two All-Star nods between 1967
and 1979.