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Lew Burdette
BornNov 22, 1926
DiedFeb 6, 2007
Age80
Stiff · February 6, 2007

Lew Burdette

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.

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Americans love a winner. As a general rule, however, they are considerably less enamored with a 250-pound mass of lifeless flesh.