Created
this card months ago and just realized that the player was actually on a
multi-player rookie card in that set, so my error makes this a
“dedicated rookie” instead of the intended “not so missing” card for
former Detroit Tigers pitcher Jim Foor:
Foor was actually on card #257 in the 1972 Topps set along with Tim
Hosley and Paul Jata, something that immediately occurred to me as I was
putting this post together.
Nevertheless, I don’t want to “waste” the effort, so here’s a “dedicated
rookie” for the 13-game Major League pitcher, who made his Big League
debut during the 1971 season with three games.
Over those three games, Foor didn’t factor in a decisions and pitched to
an eye-gouging 18.00 earned run average over one single inning, walking
four and giving up two hits while also striking out two.
He’d be back in 1972 with seven appearances for Detroit, going 1-0 with
an ERA of 14.73 over 3.2 innings, all out of the bullpen for the
American League East champ Tigers.
In 1973 he’d find himself a member of the Pittsburgh Pirates, appearing
in three games and not factoring in a decision, throwing 1.1 innings of
scoreless ball.
However, after another three seasons of Minor League work in the Kansas
City, St. Louis and Oakland systems through the 1976 campaign he’d call
it a career, finishing up with a record of 1-0 over 13 appearances, with
an ERA of 12.00 in six innings of work, all out of the ‘pen.