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.
