Wilbur Cooper
Wilbur Cooper was the 1st lefty in NL history to win 200 and the only southpaw with 3,000 innings and an ERA lower than 3.00 not in the Hall.
Read More > George Uhle
George Uhle hit .289 – the highest for any player who appeared defensively solely as a pitcher. Many say the 200-game winner invented the slider.
Read More >Eli Grba
On the advice of Casey Stengel, the Angels selected Eli Grba from the Yankees as the 1st player ever chosen in an expansion draft and the 1st player in Angels history.
Read More >Dennis Martinez
Dennis Martinez’s 245 career victories are the second-most by a Latin American pitcher and the most for any hurler without a 20-win season.
Read More >Bob Cain
Bob Cain threw the famous 4-pitch walk to Eddie Gaedel in 1951. When Gaedel died 10 years later, Cain was the only baseball man at the funeral.
Read More >Brent Strom
A college All American and two-time NCAA champion at USC, Brent Strom was the third overall pick in the 1970 first-year player draft.
Read More >Mickey Lolich
Mickey Lolich won 14 or more games in 11 consecutive seasons; when he retired he was MLB’s All-Time strikeout leader among left handers.
Read More >Babe Adams
Greg Maddux would have to pitch 217 more 9-inning games without a walk to lower his BB/9 to the same level as Pirates great Babe Adams.
Read More >Double Duty Radcliffe
Negro League great Ted Radcliffe earned the nickname “Double Duty” by often pitching in the first game of a doubleheader and catching the next.
Read More >Ned Garver
All Star Ned Garver went 20-12 for the 1951 St. Louis Browns & is the first & only MLB pitcher to win 20 for a team that lost at least 100 games.
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