NOT REALLY MISSING IN ACTION: 1978 JERRY WHITE

On the blog today, a player many of you will remember from the 1970s and 1980s, but was left out of the 1978 Topps set, Jerry White of the Montreal Expos:

White appeared in only 16 games for Montreal during the 1977 season, hitting .190 with four hits in 21 at-bats, with four runs scored and a single RBI.

He would be with the Expos 10 of his 11 seasons in the Majors, playing half a season with the Chicago Cubs in 1978 and finishing up with 25 games as a St. Louis Cardinal in 1986, with some time in the Japanese League in 1984 and 1985.

Never a full-timer, the most action he ever saw in any one season was 114 games in 1976, hitting .245 over 309 plate appearances and 278 official at-bats.

By the time he did retire after those 12 seasons, he finished with a .253 batting average, with 303 hits in 1196 at-bats over 646 games, with 155 runs scored and 109 runs batted in, stealing 57 bases and hitting 21 homers.

 

NOT REALLY MISSING IN ACTION- 1975 JERRY WHITE

On the blog today, we have a "not so missing" 1975 card for former Montreal Expos outfielder Jerry White, who made his MLB debut with nine games during the 1974 season:

 

White hit a nice .400 at the plate, with four hits in ten at-bats for the Expos when he made his Big League debut at the age of 21 that year.

He would be with the Expos 10 of his 11 seasons in the Majors, playing half a season with the Chicago Cubs in 1978 and finishing up with 25 games as a St. Louis Cardinal in 1986, with some time in the Japanese League in 1984 and 1985.

Never a full-timer, the most action he ever saw in any one season was 114 games in 1976, hitting .245 over 309 plate appearances and 278 official at-bats.

By the time he did retire after those 12 seasons, he finished with a .253 batting average, with 303 hits in 1196 at-bats over 646 games, with 155 runs scored and 109 runs batted in, stealing 57 bases and hitting 21 homers.