Goodnight, my sweet pitmaster....
RIP Bob Gibson....
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What a competitor. Our world shall never be the same.
RIP, sweet prince.
RIP, sweet prince.
Well, not many left.
Of the legends we still have Whitey Ford (91), Willie Mays (89), Henry Aaron (86), and Sandy Koufax (84).
Of the legends we still have Whitey Ford (91), Willie Mays (89), Henry Aaron (86), and Sandy Koufax (84).
I remember Tim McCarver talking about him and the manager wanted him to intentionally walk someone and he wouldn't do it so McCarver went out and explained that is what the manager wanted. Gibson said "I'll just hit him and save 3 pitches."
He played his last gig and went out in style. RIP
Some other notables are Tommy Lasorda (93), Whitey Herzog and Maury Wills (88), Bob Ueker (86), Brooks Robinson (83), Gaylord Perry (82), Phil Niekro and Carl Yastrzemski (81), and Pete Rose (79 -- almost every single member of the Big Red Machine's over 70 now).
I agree.
Did that higher mound give the pitchers a significant advantage?
Denny McLain won 31 games that same season.
How about these stats -- BEFORE the mound was raised.
Despite pitching through pain and arthritis that ended his career after 12 years, Koufax boasted a minuscule 1.86 cumulative ERA from 1963 to 1966.
He averaged 24.3 wins and 307 strikeouts per year in that stretch, including 382 strikeouts in 1965.
He won both the NL MVP and Cy Young in 1963 and proceeded to win the Cy Young again in 1965 and 1966.
Juan Marichal was pretty crazy out there too with that kick. Not Mark The Bird style crazy.
My Little League coach defeated Koufax the year SK was at UC & my coach was at X. SK's only college loss. Reds are only team SK had a losing record against.
Once McCarver went out to the mound to talk to him and Gibson ran him off by telling him, "the only thing that you know about pitching is that you can't hit it".