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kairos12

(13,706 posts) Mon Oct 1, 2018, 10:41 AM Oct 2018

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Pitcher with fewest wins at age 30 (31) who went on to win 300 games

Phil Niekro.

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Pitcher with fewest wins at age 30 (31) who went on to win 300 games (Original Post) kairos12 Oct 2018 OP

I was thinking it might have been Nolan Ryan. He wasn't on very good teams for many years. n/t brewens Oct 2018 #1

Prior to Niekro it was Gaylord Perry. Master of the spitball. kairos12 Oct 2018 #2

Well, He Did Pitch Until He Was A Hundred Years Old! ProfessorGAC Oct 2018 #3

Here's knuckleballer, Jim Bouton, telling how he learned to throw the knucklelball Brother Buzz Oct 2018 #4

brewens

(15,359 posts)

1. I was thinking it might have been Nolan Ryan. He wasn't on very good teams for many years. n/t

Reply to kairos12 (Original post)

Mon Oct 1, 2018, 11:03 AM

Oct 2018

kairos12

(13,706 posts)

2. Prior to Niekro it was Gaylord Perry. Master of the spitball.

Reply to brewens (Reply #1)

Mon Oct 1, 2018, 11:05 AM

Oct 2018

ProfessorGAC

(77,277 posts)

3. Well, He Did Pitch Until He Was A Hundred Years Old!

Reply to kairos12 (Original post)

Mon Oct 1, 2018, 11:43 AM

Oct 2018

Kidding. Phil was cool. Because of him and Wilbur Wood, i learned to throw a knuckleball as a kid. Of course, no coach would let a kid throw that pitch in a game, so it was just for fun. Besides, i wasn't a pitcher, i was a centerfielder. The knuckleball doesn't work too well from out there!

Brother Buzz

(40,409 posts)

4. Here's knuckleballer, Jim Bouton, telling how he learned to throw the knucklelball

Reply to ProfessorGAC (Reply #3)

Mon Oct 1, 2018, 03:25 PM

Oct 2018

Some pretty funny stuff

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