pirate goose

some of you may recall my pursuit of ttm autos of the 1978 topps team cards and checklists that i posted about last year.

one of those cards was the pirates team card that grant jackson had signed and returned for me, and i mentioned at the time that i had considered sending it to goose gossage.  well, i found another card and did just that.

i told goose to sign it as largely as he liked, and he complied.  no hof notation, but that's ok.  goose is standing in front of jerry reuss - he's just to the left of the 'g' in 'gossage'.

the 1977 pirates won 96 games but finished in second place behind the phillies.  their bullpen was pretty stacked with gossage, kent tekulve, and terry forster.  both gossage and forster joined the pirates from the white sox prior to 1977, and both left after the season via free agency.  the 1978 topps pirates team card is the only card i have in my collection of gossage or forster as a pirate, which is ok.

thanks goose!