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The Year of the Pitcher: Bob Gibson, Denny McLain, and the End of Baseball's Golden Age
By Pappu, Sridhar
- ISBN
- 9780547719276 9781328768131
- Publisher
- Houghton Harcourt
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Reviewed on September 15, 2017 | Fine Arts
The extraordinary 1968 baseball season is known as the year of the pitcher and included two of finest pitchers of all time: Denny McLain of the Detroit Tigers and Bob Gibson of the St. Louis Cardinals. Gibson set a modern-era major league record, finishing with a 1.12 earned run average. Meanwhile, McLain was the last person to win more than 30 ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
