Friday, September 17, 2021

1978 SPECIAL SUB-SET- "1977 30 HOME RUN CLUB" RICHIE ZISK

Coming up to the end of my long-running 1978 "30 Home Run Club" series, and today we have another Chicago White Sox slugger, Richie Zisk, who had himself an excellent 1977 campaign:

 
Zisk, who was sent from the Pittsburgh Pirates to the White Sox in the Rich Gossage deal, had one of his best years in the Majors in his only season there, hitting a career high 30 home runs and 101 runs batted in.
He was named All-Star for the first time, and was part of the "South Side Hitmen" lineup that included Oscar Gamble, Eric Soderholm and Chet Lemon, fan favorites who hit a (then) high 192 homers as a team.
Though he'd have a few more solid years left as a Major Leaguer, he'd never reach more than 22 homers in any one season before he retired in 1983.
He'd end up playing for 13-years, hitting 207 home runs with 792 RBI's and 681 runs scored with a nice .287 batting average over 1453 games and 5144 at-bats.

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