Saturday, March 17, 2018

1977 MARINERS REDONE- GLENN ABBOTT

The next player in my on-going “1977 Expansion” re-do is the Seattle Mariners’ big winner during their inaugural season, Glenn Abbott. Take a look:

RE-DONE
ORIGINAL AS-ISSUED BY TOPPS

Almost looks like a totally different person between the two, no?
Abbott, who was selected away from the dominant Oakland A’s clubs of the mid-70’s, ended up posting a record of 12-13 for the Mariners, easily leading all pitchers on the team pretty much across the board: wins, starts, ERA, Innings and complete games.
He’d actually be a stable arm for Seattle over the next five-and-a-half seasons before pitching the last couple seasons of his 11-year career with the Detroit Tigers, wrapping up during their World Champion year of 1984.
Al told, he was a member of three championship clubs during his career, finishing with a 62-83 record over 248 appearances, 206 of them starts, with five shutouts and a 4.39 ERA in 1286 innings of work.

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