DON DRYDALE--ONE HOT DEAD GUY!
Donald Scott "Don" Drysdale (July 23, 1936 - July 3, 1993)
Drysdale was a Major League Baseball player and Hall of Fame right-handed pitcher with the Los Angeles Dodgers. He was one of the dominant starting pitchers of the 1960's, and became a radio and television broadcaster following his playing career. He was born in Van Nuys, Los Angeles, California and attended Van Nuys High School, where one of his baseball teammates was actor Robert Redford. Pitching for the Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers, he teamed with Sandy Koufax during the late 1950's and early-middle 1960's to form one of the most dominating pitching duos in history. The hurler used brushback pitches and a sidearm fastball to intimidate batters. Drysdale was also considered a good hitter for a pitcher. In a total of 14 seasons, he had 218 hits, including 29 home runs, and was occasionally used as a pinch-hitter.
In 1962, Drysdale won 25 games and the Cy Young Award. In 1968, he set a record with 58 consecutive scoreless innings; the record was ultimately broken by fellow Dodger Orel Hershiser 20 years later. In 1963, he struck out 251 batters and won World Series Game (Game 3 at Los Angeles' Dodger Stadium) over the Yankees, 1-0. In 1965, he was the Dodgers' only .300 hitter and tied his own National League record for pitchers with seven home runs. That year he won 23 games and helped the Dodgers to their third World Championship in Los Angeles. He ended his career with 209 wins, 2,486 strikeouts, 167 complete games and 49 shutouts. He was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1984, and had his number 53 officially retired at Dodger Stadium on July 1, 1984.
He died of a heart attack in his hotel room in Montreal, Quebec, where he had been broadcasting a Dodgers game in 1993. As a child myself, he was my baseball hero.
(information source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Drysdale)
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