- Before the 1977 season Bobby Murcer (with Steve Ontiveros and a minor leaguer) were traded to the Chicago Cubs for Bill Madlock and Rob Sperring
- Both Murcer and Madlock were involved in contract disputes with their clubs.
- 1977 Stats:
- .265, 27 HR, 89 RBI
- Led the NL with 10 sacrifice flies
- 1977 Highlights:
- Feb 11 - Traded to the Cubs in a multi-player deal that netted Bill Madlock for the Giants
- June 20 - Drove in six runs with a double and two home runs against his old team as the Cubs beat the Giants 10-9.
- June 26 - Hit a home run and had a sacrifice fly in Chicago's 5-2 win over the New York Mets.
- Aug 8 - Promised a boy in a hospital who was fighting cancer that he would hit a home run and a double in the upcoming game. Bobby didn't quite keep the promise -- he hit two home runs instead. The boy died two weeks later.
- Other card blogs: 1976, 1976, 1975, 1974, 1972
This comment has been removed by the author.
ReplyDeleteDoesn't look like Bobby completely agreed with umpire Paul Pryor on that strike call. Fairly certain this was the 2nd game of a doubleheader on Sunday 7/18/76 as it was the only day game Joe Ferguson played at San Francisco that year. Bobby took an 0-for-4 collar in a 5-4 loss in front of 15,937 dedicated Giants fans watching two pretty lousy teams. The game at Candlestick the next night drew... 1,587 fans. Some of the attendance figures for lousy teams from the 70s were pretty scary. Didn't the A's once draw like 200 people for a game in the late 70s?
ReplyDelete