Gale finished the season with a record of 14-8, with a very nice 3.09 earned run average over 31 appearances, 30 of them starts.
He threw 192.1 innings, with nine complete games and three shutouts while walking 100 batters along with 88 strikeouts for the Western Division champions.
Of course, when the 1979 Topps cards cam out, we kids saw that for some reason they decided to scrap the cool-looking rookie all-star cups we had grown accustomed to between 1975 and 1978.
Nevertheless, here we are some 40 years later, with a “fix” to remedy that decision.
For Gale, as we have seen so many other times, that rookie season would turn out to be the best of his 7-year Big League career, though he would go 13-9 two seasons later.
But by the time he left the Majors in 1984 after a brief stint with the Boston Red Sox, he finished with a career record of 55-56, with a 4.54 ERA over 195 appearances and 970 innings pitched, with five shutouts and 518 strikeouts.
