Really fun card to add to the blog today, a "not so missing" 1970 card for former N.L. MVP George Foster, who began his career with the San Francisco Giants:
Foster
appeared in nine games for the Giants in 1969, hitting a robust .400
with two hits in five at-bats, with both a run scored and an RBI.
It
was his first taste of the Majors, and he would again appear in nine
games during the 1970 season, hitting .316 with six hits over 19
at-bats, including his first double, triple and home run.
The
1971 season would bring him incredible fortune when he was traded to
the Cincinnati Reds for Frank Duffy and Vern Geishert, part of the
building process that would eventually lead to the juggernaut "Big Red
Machine" two-time champion Reds teams of the mid-70s.
As for Foster’s career, all he would go on to do is give the Reds
another big time bat along with Pete Rose, Johnny Bench and Tony Perez,
with Joe Morgan soon joining them in 1972, forming one of the all-time great line-ups the game has ever seen.
Between, Foster, Bench, Rose and Morgan, it would give the Reds five MVP seasons in the decade, just insane, with Foster having his career-year in 1977 when he slammed 52 homers along with 149 RBIs and 124 runs scored, all leading numbers in the National League.
He’d go on to play 18 years in the Big Leagues, finishing in the top-3 in MVP voting three times, while making five All-Star teams and retiring with 348 home runs, 1239 RBIs and just under 2000 hits with 1925.
Between, Foster, Bench, Rose and Morgan, it would give the Reds five MVP seasons in the decade, just insane, with Foster having his career-year in 1977 when he slammed 52 homers along with 149 RBIs and 124 runs scored, all leading numbers in the National League.
He’d go on to play 18 years in the Big Leagues, finishing in the top-3 in MVP voting three times, while making five All-Star teams and retiring with 348 home runs, 1239 RBIs and just under 2000 hits with 1925.
