Word: niekro
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Last week, Phil Niekro and Steve Carlton established a new major league record when they became the first tandem of 300-game winners to pitch in the same game for the same team. They also join Don Sutton, Tommy John and Phil's brother Joe as pitchers with ages over 40. Name the oldest pitcher to have ever pitched in a major league game...
...Phil Niekro (Boggs hit .478 against him last year...
...York, Ron Guidry is washed up and Joe Niekro has a 9.71 earned runs average in his last eight starts. The Yankees last week started two pitchers, Al Holland and Tim Stoddard, who had not started for four years. Meanwhile, in Baltimore, manager Earl Weaver was using former Cy Young award winner Mike Flanagan in relief. The only team in the division whose record matches up with Boston's against the East is the Toronto Blue Jays. The Red Sox are certainly not one of baseball's all-time great teams, but for the rest of the year they should...
...Niekro threw the last N.L. no-hitter on Sept. 26, 1983 against Montreal...
...Only Kaat is older than Niekro, who turned 47 on April 1, 1986. Versalles (the 1964 A.L. MVP) was born on December 18, 1939; Tony C. on Janruary 7, 1945; Rose on Jan. 14, 1941; and Captain Carl on August 22, 1939. Kaat, who accumulated 283 career wins, was born on November...