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Friday, December 13, 2019

Kellogg's Baseball Card Backs - #50 George Foster

Let's see if Kellogg's can keep it interesting with another veteran - George Foster.  


One of his hobbies was records.  I hear that they are making a comeback with the youth of today.  

Foster has hit .300 during four the last five seasons.   He now has over 200 career homers.  

He had 31 road homers in 1977, a record for a right-handed batter.  I didn't remember them getting to this level of details on records back then.  This is certainly common today.  



His prolific RBI totals were mentioned.  He had consecutive seasons of 121, 149, 120.  He led the league all three years.  He never reached 100 homers again but he had 90+ four other times. 

What hurt his career numbers?  He only played 150 or more games in four seasons of his 18-year career.  Baseball-reference.com lists his 162-game average as being 102 RBIs.  I don't pay attention to that because that doesn't reflect what he did during each year. 

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