biography
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| lived:
| (1935– )
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| biography:
| Baseball player, born in Omaha, Nebraska, USA. A noted pitcher with the St Louis Cardinals, with whom he started in 1959, he twice won the Cy Young Award as best pitcher in the National League, and in 1968 became Most Valuable Player in the League on the strength of an earned-run average of 1·12, by far the lowest to date. He set a World Series record of 17 strikeouts against the Detroit Tigers in 1968. |
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