The 300 Club: Have We Seen the Last of Baseball's 300-Game Winners
The 300 Club is the most elite fraternity in baseball. Only 24 pitchers in the history of Major League Baseball have won 300 games in their careers.\ More players have hit 500 home runs.\ More players have amassed 3,000 hits.\ More pitchers have thrown no-hitters.\ But only 24 have experienced the satisfaction of having the "W" put on their scorecards 300 times.\ Featuring photos and other images from the National Baseball Hall of Fame, The 300 Club-Have We Seen the Last of Baseball's...
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Since the beginning of Major League Baseball in 1876, only two dozen pitchers have won 300 games. And because of new philosophies about pitch counts, the role of relief pitchers, shrinking strike zones, and five-man rotations, there's a good chance that the 300 Club has admitted its last member. In a fascinating new book - The 300 Club - Have We Seen the Last of Baseball's 300-Game Winners? - author Dan Schlossberg chronicles the most exclusive fraternity in baseball. Beginning with Cy Young and Walter Johnson, the only two players to win more than 400 games, the book reviews the careers of all 24 pitchers in the club. Exclusive interviews with 10 living 300-game winners, including Randy Johnson, Roger Clemens, and Greg Maddux, form the heart of the book. Johnson was the last pitcher to join the club, winning his 300th during the 2009baseball season.The book also investigates the very real possibility that no pitcher will win 300 games again. Changes in relief pitching, salaries, starting rotations, and injuries are conspiring to keep the 300 Club "closed."Sprinkled with rare photos from the archives of the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York, this book explains how this unusual collection of 24 men managed to win so many games, and why other standouts, such as Bob Gibson, Don Drysdale, and Sandy Koufax, fell short of the magic number. The 300 Club is about "the last of a breed," but the book is the first of its kind - a fast-paced and thorough exploration of the best pitchers the game has ever seen.
Acknowledgments ix\ Foreword 1\ Introduction 7\ Ch. 1 First to 300 Pud Galvin Tim Keefe, Mickey Welch 11\ Ch. 2 Early Workhorses Kid Nichols Old Hoss Radbourn John Clarkson 27\ Ch. 3 One Who Won 500, and Another Who Won 400 Cy Young Walter Johnson 43\ Ch. 4 Dead Ball Aces Christy Mathewson Grover Cleveland Alexander 63\ Ch. 5 The Winningest Southpaw Warren Spahn 83\ Ch. 6 The Professor Greg Maddux 97\ Ch. 7 Roger the Rocket Roger Clemens 109\ Ch. 8 Connie's Curvers Eddie Plank Lefty Grove 125\ Ch. 9 Lefty Steve Carlton 143\ Ch. 10 The Ryan Express Nolan Ryan 159\ Ch. 11 Sandy's Heir Don Sutton 173\ Ch. 12 The Knuckleballer Phil Niekro 187\ Ch. 13 Have Arm, Will Travel Gaylord Perry 201\ Ch. 14 The Franchise Tom Seaver 213\ Ch. 15 Precision on the Hill Tom Glavine 227\ Ch. 16 Flamethrower Randy Johnson 239\ Ch. 17 By a Nose 253\ Plus a few Preteders Early Wynn\ Ch. 18 Almost, But Not Quite 265\ Some greats who didn't make it\ Ch. 19 Who's Next? Anybody? 275\ Will we have other 300-game winners?\ Appendix 283\ Bibliography 285\ Index 295
