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...Seattle pitcher Randy Johnson was the overwhelming winner of the American League's Cy Young Award. Known more in his early days for his size and propensity to accidentally hit batters often and without warning, the 6'10" lefthander harnessed his control in recent seasons to become a much more effective pitcher. Johnson dominated the league, leading the majors in strikeouts for the fourth straight year on the way to an 18-2 record and a 2.48 earned run average. Perhaps no pitcher was more valuable to his team than the "Big Unit"; the Mariners were 27-3 in games...
Atlanta's Greg Maddux on Monday won the award given to the National League's best pitcher for the fourth straight year. The ace of the Braves' pitching staff dominated the league this year, with an NL-high 19 wins and a 1.63 earned run average, and led the Braves to their first world championship since 1957. The diminutive Maddux, who TIME's Steve Wulf calls "the best pitcher of his generation," beat out several others including Hideo Nomo, the Los Angeles Dodgers Rookie of the Year...
...Seattle pitcher Randy Johnson was the overwhelming winner of the American League's Cy Young Award. Known more in his early days for his size and propensity to accidentally hit batters often and without warning, the 6'10" lefthander harnessed his control in recent seasons to become a much more effective pitcher. Johnson dominated the league, leading the majors in strikeouts for the fourth straight year on the way to an 18-2 record and a 2.48 earned run average. Perhaps no pitcher was more valuable to his team than the "Big Unit"; the Mariners were 27-3 in games...
BASEBALL GOT WHAT IT DIDN'T DEserve. Namely, baseball. A season that began with 48-year-old Pedro Borbon Sr. wheezing and falling off the mound as a replacement pitcher ended with a glorious World Series in which 27-year-old Pedro Borbon Jr. was warming up in the ninth inning for the world champion Atlanta Braves. A season that at first seemed too short because of its 144-game schedule provided fans with too many memories. Forget the owners, forget the union activists, forget the Baseball Network, whatever that was. Remember that the game, if left alone long enough...
...sides of baseball were readily apparent in the World Series. On the one hand, you had Cleveland pitcher Orel Hershiser, who was so nice that he stopped his press conference after winning Game Five because he heard someone's tape recorder click off on the table in front of him. (He found the recorder, flipped over the cassette and resumed talking.) On the other hand, Hershiser's teammate, Albert Belle, verbally assaulted nbc reporter Hannah Storm as she waited in the Indians' dugout before Game Three. (Shouldn't Albert and Hannah swap names...