BOB GIBSON
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Youth
and early career
Despite a childhood filled with health problems,
including rickets,
asthma, pneumonia,
and a heart
murmur, he was active in sports as a youth, particularly baseball and basketball.
He won a basketball scholarship to Creighton University.
This person is a member of the Baseball Hall of Fame.
In 1957, Gibson received a US$4,000.00 bonus
to sign with the Cardinals. He delayed his start with the organization for a
year, playing with the Harlem Globetrotters, earning the nickname
"Bullet" Bob Gibson (his nickname in baseball was "Hoot",
after Hoot
Gibson, the cowboy and silent movie star). In 1958 he spent a year
at the triple-A farm
club in Omaha. He graduated to the major leagues in 1959 and had the
first of nine 200-strikeout seasons in 1962.
The
Dominator
In the eight seasons from 1963 to 1970, he won 156
games and lost 81. He won nine Gold
Glove Awards, was awarded the World Series MVP Award in 1964 and 1967, and won Cy
Young Awards in 1968
and 1970. His 1967
World
Series was amazing. Gibson allowed only three earned runs over three
complete game victories(Games 1, 4, & 7), also hitting a vital home run
in Game 7.
His ERA in 1968 was 1.12, which is a modern
record. He threw 13 shutouts, and allowed only two earned runs
in 92 straight innings of pitching. He also won the National League MVP. In Game 1 of
the 1968 World Series, he struck out 17 Detroit
Tigers including the last one on Tiger Willie Horton to set a still
World Series record for strikeouts in 1 game. His season was so successful
that it contributed to the lowering of the pitcher's
mound by five inches for 1969. The change had only a slight effect on him; he went
20-13 that year, with a 2.18 ERA. Some say that his 13 shutout season
may never be repeated by anyone again given the heavier emphasis on pitch
counts and relief pitching today.
On August 14,
1971, at Pittsburgh's
Three Rivers Stadium in a night game, he
pitched his only career no-hitter in a 11-0 victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates.
He was the second pitcher in MLB history (after Walter
Johnson) to strike out over 3,000 batters, the first to do so in the National
League. He accomplished this at home (St. Louis' Busch
Stadium) on July
17, 1974 by
striking out the Cincinnati Reds' Cesar
Geronimo (who had the dubious distinction of also being Nolan Ryan's
3000th strikeout victim).
Gibson was also one of the best-hitting pitchers
of all time. For his career, he batted .206 with 24 home runs (plus two more
in the World Series) and 144 RBIs. He is one of only two pitchers since World
War II with a career batting average of .200 or higher and with at least 20
home runs and 100 RBIs (fellow Hall of Famer and former Major League manager Bob Lemon
is the other).
Don't
Mess With 'Hoot'
Gibson was known for pitching inside to batters.
Dusty
Baker received the following advice from Hank Aaron
about facing Gibson:
"'Don't dig in against Bob Gibson,
he'll knock you down. Don't stare at him. He doesn't like it. If you happen
to hit a home run, don't run too slow, don't run too fast. If you happen to
want to celebrate, get in the tunnel first. And if he hits you, don't charge
the mound, because he's a Gold Glove boxer.' I'm like, 'Damn, what about my
17-game hitting streak?' That was the night it
ended." [1]
Gibson maintained this image even into
retirement. In 1992,
an Old-Timers' game was played at Jack Murphy Stadium in San Diego
as part of the All-Star Game festivities, and Reggie
Jackson hit a home run off Gibson. When the 1993 edition of the
game was played, the 57-year-old Gibson threw the 47-year-old Jackson a
brushback pitch. The pitch was not especially fast and did not hit Jackson,
but the message was delivered, and Jackson did not get a hit.
Honors
His number 45 is retired by the St. Louis
Cardinals, and in 1981,
he was inducted into the Baseball Hall Of Fame.
In 1999, he ranked Number 31 on The Sporting News' list of the 100 Greatest
Baseball Players, and was elected to the Major League Baseball
All-Century Team.
He has a star on the St. Louis Walk of Fame.
References
For a vivid depiction of the man and the times
he pitched in, see David Halberstam's October 1964 (ISBN
0679433384; reprint ISBN
0449983676).
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