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Classic Sports Card of The Day

23 Mar

Courtesy of www.CheckOutMyCards.com , a 1965 Topps baseball card of former major league pitcher Luis Tiant. The Cuban born hurler played 19 seasons in the major leagues, mostly with the Cleveland Indians and Boston Red Sox. He is one of only 5 pitchers in modern major league history to have thrown 4 or more  consecutive shutouts, with Don Drysdale, Bob Gibson, Gaylord Perry and Orel Hershiser being the others. That’s pretty good company. Tiant is the subject of a documentary film Lost Son of Havana, and despite having won 229 games over his career, is not in the Hall of Fame, although there is a grassroots campaign on the social networking site Facebook trying to get him elected.

 

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