Dazzy Vance
Dazzy Vance made his Major League debut in 1915 but was not in the big leagues to stay until 1922 when he was 31 years of age.
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Dazzy Vance made his Major League debut in 1915 but was not in the big leagues to stay until 1922 when he was 31 years of age.
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The Major Leagues’ strikeout leader from 1902 through 1907, Rube Waddell was the game’s greatest drawing card at the turn of the century.
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The last man to win 40 games in a season, Ed Walsh enjoyed a 14-year career in which he established an MLB-record 1.82 career ERA.
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Mickey Welch won his 300th game on July 28, 1890 and joined an exclusive club whose only members at the time were Pud Galvin and Tim Keefe.
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In 1920, George Sisler hit .407 and set the single-season record with 257 hits. His mark stood until Ichiro Suzuki amassed 262 knocks in 2004.
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Hilton Smith and Satchel Paige teamed to form the greatest pitching duo in Negro League history. Many regarded Smith as the superior hurler.
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Warren Spahn won 363 games – the most by a left-hander in baseball history. The total also tops every pitcher in the post-1920 live-ball era.
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Albert Spalding was a pitcher, manager and executive in the early days of the game. He was the first well-known player to use a fielding glove.
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A six-time All Star, Bruce Sutter led the NL in saves five times. The 1979 Cy Young Award winner was inducted in 2006, his 13th year of eligibility.
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Don Sutton holds many Dodger franchise marks but recorded his 300th win with the Angels and his 3,000th strikeout with the Brewers.
Read More >"Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball…"
~Jacques Barzun, 1954