Back in the days when I followed baseball I was pretty much an exclusively National League fan. The LA Dodgers were my team from the time they moved from Brooklyn to LA until the 1990s strike that forever ended my love of baseball. But there was a time in the mid-1970s when even out in California I was aware of one American League player.
Heck every baseball fan knew Mark "The Bird" Fidrych. Here's a 1985 interview about the unusual play with a very short career.
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I saw him pitch an 11 inning shutout as a kid. It was a great memory, but also a huge example of what the Tigers did wrong with this great young arm.
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