Wonderful trip down memory lane, as usual. Thanks for sharing. Colborn threw the Royals first no-hitter in ‘77. It was a huge deal in our mid-western parts, especially that it came against a main regional rival, the Rangers. My older brother’s church youth group went to that game at Royals stadium. ✌️⚾️✌️
I was certainly spoiled by great pitchers in the early '80s. I fell in love with baseball a year before the author. 300 innings, 20 wins, 300 strikeouts, 20 complete games were commonplace as the '80s rolled in. Today we are lucky to see a pitcher toss 200 innings, 20 wins / 300 Ks are a rarity now, and complete games....lucky to see 2-3. I truly miss the 3-2 games where BOTH pitchers toss a CG.
It's definitely a different game on the mound. There are tradeoffs, I suppose. Back in "our day," we rarely saw pitchers maintain strikeout-per-inning rates for long (Nolan Ryan was an obvious exception). Eleven per nine for 175-inning guys isn't too unusual these days. I still love baseball either way, but I did prefer days of higher starter workloads.
Wonderful trip down memory lane, as usual. Thanks for sharing. Colborn threw the Royals first no-hitter in ‘77. It was a huge deal in our mid-western parts, especially that it came against a main regional rival, the Rangers. My older brother’s church youth group went to that game at Royals stadium. ✌️⚾️✌️
Awesome! Hard to top that group outing in terms of results and memories.
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I was certainly spoiled by great pitchers in the early '80s. I fell in love with baseball a year before the author. 300 innings, 20 wins, 300 strikeouts, 20 complete games were commonplace as the '80s rolled in. Today we are lucky to see a pitcher toss 200 innings, 20 wins / 300 Ks are a rarity now, and complete games....lucky to see 2-3. I truly miss the 3-2 games where BOTH pitchers toss a CG.
It's definitely a different game on the mound. There are tradeoffs, I suppose. Back in "our day," we rarely saw pitchers maintain strikeout-per-inning rates for long (Nolan Ryan was an obvious exception). Eleven per nine for 175-inning guys isn't too unusual these days. I still love baseball either way, but I did prefer days of higher starter workloads.