On
the blog today, a player many of you will remember from the 1970s and
1980s, but was left out of the 1978 Topps set, Jerry White of the
Montreal Expos:
White
appeared in only 16 games for Montreal during the 1977 season, hitting
.190 with four hits in 21 at-bats, with four runs scored and a single
RBI.
He
would be with the Expos 10 of his 11 seasons in the Majors, playing
half a season with the Chicago Cubs in 1978 and finishing up with 25
games as a St. Louis Cardinal in 1986, with some time in the Japanese
League in 1984 and 1985.
Never a full-timer, the most action
he ever saw in any one season was 114 games in 1976, hitting .245 over
309 plate appearances and 278 official at-bats.
By the time he
did retire after those 12 seasons, he finished with a .253 batting
average, with 303 hits in 1196 at-bats over 646 games, with 155 runs
scored and 109 runs batted in, stealing 57 bases and hitting 21 homers.
