A special request has come in to the blog to re-do
Terry Forster's 1978 card, which originally had him airbrushed into a
Los Angeles Dodgers uni after signing with them as a Free Agent in
November of 1977.
Here, I have created a 1978 card showing him as a Pittsburgh Pirate, for whom he suited up in 1977 in his lone season there:
Forster
was already a proven Big League reliever after six seasons with the
Chicago White Sox, even leading the league with 24 save in 1974.
In December 1976 he was traded to the Pirates along with Rich Gossage (ouch!), for Richie Zisk and Silvio Martinez.
Forster
did well as a set-up man, appearing in 33 games, with six of those
games starts, collecting one save and going 6-4 with a 4.43 ERA in 87.1
innings.
He would go on to play five years with the Dodgers,
helping them to two World Series, winning it all in 1981, before moving
on to the Atlanta Braves between 1983 and 1985, then one final year in
1986 as a member of the California Angels.
All told, he
appeared in 614 games between 1971 and 1986, picking up 127 saves to go
along with a record of 54-65, with a nnice 3.23 ERA over 1105.2 innings.
Not too shabby!
