Word: maddux
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Young--It seemed like this award would once again go to Greg Maddux, but he went into a late slide. Now, we have to look elsewhere. And while Kevin Brown (18-7, 2.38 ERA, 257 K) and Tom Glavine (20-6, 2.47 ERA) both had great seasons, San Diego reliever Trevor Hoffman was the best pitcher...
...Young--Toronto's Roger Clemens did what seemed impossible two years ago. When Maddux won his four Cy Youngs in consecutive seasons, it seemed a foregone conclusion he would be the first ever to win five. But Clemens won last year to tie Maddux, and he is almost a lock to win it again this year...
ARRESTED. IRA EINHORN, counterculture guru and peripatetic fugitive; for the 1977 murder of his girlfriend in Philadelphia; in France. The former Harvard lecturer fled to Europe just before the start of his 1981 trial for killing Holly Maddux. He was convicted in absentia in 1993 and arrested last year. But a French court refused to allow his extradition, citing a lack of provisions in Pennsylvania state law--since added--that would grant him a new trial...
...Atlanta (Maddux 17-7) at Montreal (Batista...
...similarly unshowy on the mound. Maddux doesn't get tons of strikeouts (not even 200 in a year; the record is 383). He doesn't pitch a lot of shutouts. In other words, he doesn't starve batters--he just serves them table scraps, stuff they can't really smack. Lots of his pitches dribble into the infield. Almost none fly out of the park (only five this year and none in his five face-offs against McGwire). Jim Palmer, a Hall of Fame pitcher, calls Maddux "a master at late movement," a baseballese way of saying his pitches dance...