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Oakland Athletics pitcher Vida Blue coils to fire during his American League Cy Young Award and MVP season of 1971.sport. They watched baseball sign Jackie Robinson and were euphoric. Baseball was the pastime, and we were finally in it.
Baseball attracted 70 million fans to stadiums for the first time since 2017. Credit a slew of peppy new rules that helped whack 24 minutes off the average game. I enjoy this new game, but old-school baseball fans will feel my pain.that sacred, heightened dirt? Who commanded the game’s center stage? They’re all but extinct. A wheezing, gasping dinosaur.
CS tallies waned in the late-1980s, and early 90s. Now, only once since 2000 has a pitcher in either league10 complete games: James Shields of Tampa Bay in 2011. In 2023, Kansas City’s Jordan Lyles and Miami’s Sandy Alcantara led the American and National Leagues, respectively, with, uh, three complete games each.With the demise of the workhorse, the 20-game winner has slid, as well.
The Black Aces are the 15 Black pitchers who’ve won 20 games in a season over the sport’s history. That’s right: 15.
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