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To: SliderOnTheBlack who wrote (8643)	3/20/2008 11:17:38 PM
From: Nihontochicken	Respond to of 50685

I'm not much of a baseball nut (ever since my mom threw out an approx. two cubic foot cardboard box filled with two years' worth of baseball cards, about 1955-56). But our local pitching hero was Sandy Koufax. His problem was that his weak sister team mates couldn't score any runs to back up his incredible pitching. He once had a perfect game going for, what, ten innings, and finally lost it, 1-0. What a crusher. Like Warren Spahn going into the pennant showdown game with an 18-0 season, and going 18-1. Or me buying another slug of CEF a few days ago at $12.25 and thinking I was home free. NC ;o) P.S. - An under-rated pitcher, also LA Dodgers, was Don Drysdale. Not as great as Koufax on the mound, but Don could HIT! He was never yanked for a pinch hitter in the late innings. I think his batting average was somewhere around .300. Given the Dodgers' inability to score runs in that era, you have to hand it to Drysdale for providing his own support!