Up on the blog
today, we go and celebrate the 1978 Major League All-Star game with a
1979 highlight card, something I always wished Topps did as a kid since
the Midsummer Classic was a downright HOLIDAY for
me back then:
The game, held at San Diego Stadium on July 11th,
saw the A.L. jump out to a quick 3-0 lead going into the bottom of the
third inning, something they always seemed to do back then, before the
N.L.
answered back with three runs of their own.
It would remain 3-3
heading into the bottom of the eighth before the game’s eventual MVP,
Los Angeles Dodgers star Steve Garvey, led off the inning with a triple
of the New York Yankees’ Goose Gossage, setting
up an inning that saw the A.L. fall apart, eventually giving up four
runs before the dust settled, resulting in yet another N.L. win, 7-3.
Gossage was credited
with the loss while Chicago Cubs reliever Bruce Sutter got the win, and
Steve Garvey taking home his second All-Star game MVP, first taking
home the award in 1974.
It was the seventh
straight win for the National league in the All-Star game, and it was
KILLING me as I was still waiting for my American League to win a game
since I started watching the sport a few years
earlier.
Little did I know
I’d still have to wait until 1983 to see a win, thanks to Fred Lynn and
his grand slam, which had me almost take down the chandelier hanging in
my parent’s living room at that time.