He pitched 158 complete games, and had 203 wins in his 18-year career. He was voted Most Valuable Player of the 1957 World Series with three complete game victories, two of them shutouts. He had outstanding control, averaging just 1.84 walks per nine innings pitched, and he pitched over 3,000 of them. Anyway, he's dead.

Name
Lew Burdette
Birthday
November 22, 1926
Age
80
Died on
Tuesday, February 6th, 2007
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Tuesday, February 6th, 2007
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Lew Burdette
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The amazing thing is that after having candied yams, butter beans, corn bread and gravy and blueberry cobbler every night for supper, he still lived to be 84.

(d) February 19th, 1998