Bruce Sutter, the Hall of Fame reliever and 1979 National League Cy Young Award winner with the Chicago Cubs, died Thursday. He was 69.
ST. LOUIS — When Bruce Sutter began experimenting with the split-fingered fastball, he wasn’t looking for a path to Cooperstown. He was just hoping to save his career.
Sutter was recently diagnosed with cancer and in hospice surrounded by his family, one of Sutter’s three sons, Chad, told the Associated Press. The Baseball Hall of Fame said Bruce Sutter died in Cartersville, Ga.A six-time All-Star, Sutter led the National League in saves for five years and won the 1979 Cy Young Award. He posted 300 saves in a 12-year career with the Chicago Cubs, St. Louis Cardinals and Atlanta Braves.
Bruce Sutter speaks during a 2006 news conference at the Waldorf Astoria in New York. The former Cubs and Cardinals closer pioneered the split-fingered fastball.
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