Ned Garver, 20-Game Winner for the 102-Loss Browns, Dies at 91

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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/28/sports/baseball/ned-garver-dead-st-louis-browns-pitcher.html?_r=0

“The crowd didn’t dare boo us,” Garver once said of his nearly five seasons with the lowly Browns before sparse crowds at Sportsman’s Park, which they shared with the popular Cardinals. “The players had them outnumbered.”

Garver posted a 20-12 record in 1951 with a last-place team that finished at 52-102.

He also batted .305 and hit a home run to break a tie game with the Chicago White Sox on the season’s final day, when he recorded his 20th victory.

He was runner-up for the A.L.’s Most Valuable Player Award. He lost to Yogi Berra, whose pennant-winning Yankees finished 46 games in front of those Browns.

“Next to me, Ned knew more about baseball than just about any pitcher in the American League,” Satchel Paige, a Browns teammate of Garver’s, recalled in his 1962 memoir, “Maybe I’ll Pitch Forever,” written with David Lipman. “Even with that slow stuff of his, he did right well all along, just using his head.”

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Impressive stuff for sure.  Almost up there with this guy's 1972 season.