George Foster (baseball player)
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Foster in 2011
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| Left fielder | |||
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Born: December 1, 1948 Tuscaloosa, Alabama |
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| MLB debut | |||
| September 10, 1969, for the San Francisco Giants | |||
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| September 6, 1986, for the Chicago White Sox | |||
| MLB statistics | |||
| Batting average | .274 | ||
| Home runs | 348 | ||
| Runs batted in | 1,239 | ||
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George Arthur Foster (born December 1, 1948) is an American former professional baseball outfielder, who played in Major League Baseball from 1969 to 1986. One of the most feared right-handed sluggers of his era, he was a key piece of the Cincinnati Reds' "Big Red Machine" that won consecutive World Series in 1975 and 1976.
Foster led the National League in home runs in 1977 and 1978, and in RBIs in 1976, 1977, and 1978. He won the NL's Most Valuable Player Award in 1977 and a Silver Slugger Award in 1981.
Born in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, Foster was drafted by the San Francisco Giants in the third round of the 1968 Major League Baseball draft upon graduation from Leuzinger High School in Lawndale, California. After two seasons in their farm system, he debuted with the Giants at twenty years old in September 1969. He went two-for-five with one run batted in as a pinch hitter and late inning defensive replacement. That year on September 22, Willie Mays pinch hit for Foster and scored his career home run number 600.
Foster returned to the Giants in September of the following year, hitting his first career home run off the San Diego Padres' Pat Dobson. He finally made an opening day roster in 1971 as a fourth outfielder behind Mays, Bobby Bonds and Ken Henderson, but was traded to the Cincinnati Reds shortly after the season started for shortstop Frank Duffy and pitcher Vern Geishert.
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