Pitchers such as Greg Maddux, Bob Stanley and Eddie Guardado are notable for having success at the major league levels with two-seam fastballs in the mid 80s.

Pitchers such as Bob Gibson of the St. Louis Cardinals and Denny McLain of the Detroit Tigers among others dominated hitters, producing 339 shutouts in 1968, almost double the number of shutouts thrown in 1962.

Pitchers popularly known as headhunters include Don Drysdale, Bob Gibson, Sal Maglie, Hugh Casey, Nolan Ryan, Roger Clemens, Pedro Martínez and Josh Beckett.

Pitchers dominated the game in the 1960s and early 1970s.

Pitchers grumble about lively balls and lively bats, the shrinking strike zone, and the fact that the knock-down pitch is now illegal.

In the book The Neyer / James Guide to Pitchers, sports journalist Rob Neyer wrote that the speed with which pitchers like Cy Young, Amos Rusie, and Jouett Meekin threw was the impetus that caused the move.

Pitchers Carl Pavano and Armando Benitez turned in record-setting performances.

Pitchers, though, were not afraid to walk him to get to the 33-year-old Foxx, and after that the 34-year-old Joe Cronin, the player-manager.

Pitchers like Fifty Dela Hunt, Charlie Johnson, Einar Erickson, and Jessie Schwartz were some of the hired players, who were paid about $ 25 per game.

Pitchers Jim Hughey ( 4 – 30 ) and Charlie Knepper ( 4 – 22 ) tied for the team lead in wins.

Pitchers want to throw as many strikeouts as possible, while batters attempt to minimize striking out themselves.

* Pitchers who start on the Sunday before the game break will be replaced on the roster, but will still be recognized as All-Stars.

Pitchers were expected to complete games they started.

Pitchers could no longer throw 400 innings in a season, as the home run meant a run could be scored at any time.

Pitchers often select pitches that make a double play more likely ( typically a pitch easily hit as a ground ball to a middle infielder ) and teams on defense alter infield positions to make a ground ball more likely to be turned into a double play.

Pitchers who can throw a curveball completely over handed with the arm slot more or less vertical will have a curveball that will break straight downwards.

Pitchers who throw their curveballs with the arm slot at an angle will throw a curveball that breaks down and toward the pitcher's off-hand.

Pitching like a Pro: A Guide for Young Pitchers and Their Coaches, Little League through High School.

" The Neyer / James Guide to Pitchers.

Pitchers throw a variety of pitches, each of which has a slightly different velocity, trajectory, movement, hand position, wrist position and / or arm angle.

Pitchers threw underhand windmill, like in softball, and the distance between bases was 65 feet, five feet longer than in softball but 25 feet shorter than in baseball.

Pitchers with smaller hands will only place the index finger slightly to the inside ( that is, towards the thumb ) of the ball.

Pitchers Tim Stauffer, Cesar Carrillo and Mat Latos were promoted to the Padres after performing well at the Double-A level, though Stauffer and Carrillo both spent a few weeks at the Triple-A level before moving on to the Majors.

Pitchers Simon Castro, Wynn Pelzer, Craig Italiano and Evan Scribner were selected to represent the Missions along with catcher Luis Martinez, first baseman Matt Clark and outfielder Cedric Hunter.

Crisman was born 1919 in Washington, the only child of Fred Crisman and his wife Eva Pitchers, both from Iowa.

Pitchers throw a variety of pitches, each one of which has a slightly different velocity, trajectory, movement and / or arm angle.

In, pitchers such as Denny McLain and Bob Gibson among others dominated hitters, producing 339 shutouts.

Since then, The Corner has been used periodically to videotape special segments, such as the appearance of Denny McLain on Fox Sports Net's Beyond the Glory and a pregame piece for the 2005 Major League Baseball All-Star Game featuring Ernie Harwell.

Although the game does not use any real Major League Baseball teams, one of the default teams, the American Dreams, included players with names that are based on real ( former ) baseball players such as " Pete " ( Pete Rose ), " Hank " ( Hank Aaron ), " Babe " ( Babe Ruth ), " Sandie " ( Sandy Koufax ), " Cy " ( Cy Young ), " Denny " ( Denny McLain ), and " Willie " ( Willie Mays ).

The exact rate of this genetic " dilution " is not specified, and several half-Deryni characters ( such as Alaric Morgan and Duncan McLain ) display significant levels of arcane strength.

Many of the clansmen at Lochbuie retained other spellings of Maclaine or MacLean, such as Maclayne, McClain, and McLain.

1958 saw the beginning of Jin Records with artists such as Clint West, Tommy McLain & the Boogie Kings, Lil Bob & The Lollipops, Warren Storm, Skip Stewart, Rockin ' Sidney, Rod Bernard, Johnny Allan and others making significant contributions to what was the, then, controversial Swamp Pop music.

According to Gibson, he was inspired by the big screen epics he had loved as a child, such as Stanley Kubrick's Spartacus and William Wyler's The Big Country.

Traditional tuner layout is " 3 + 3 " in which each side of the headstock has three tuners ( such as on Gibson Les Pauls ).

After the lawsuit period Hoshino Gakki introduced Ibanez models that were definitely not copies of the Gibson or Fender designs such as the Iceman and The Ibanez Roadstar.

The Gibson L5, an acoustic archtop guitar which was first produced in 1923, was an early “ jazz ”- style guitar which was used by early jazz guitarists such as Eddie Lang.

Improved electric guitars such as Gibson ’ s ES175 ( released in 1949 ), gave players a larger variety of tonal options.

Berry signed a series of contracts with Screen Gems to write and produce music for Jan and Dean, as well as other artists such as Judy & Jill ( Berry's girlfriend Jill Gibson and Dean Torrence's girlfriend Judy Lovejoy ), The Matadors, and Pixie ( a young female solo singer ).

Popular examples include The Difference Engine by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling, as well as the Girl Genius series by Phil and Kaja Foglio, although seeds of the genre may be seen in certain works of Michael Moorcock, Philip Jose Farmer and Steve Stiles, and in such games as Space 1889 and Marcus Rowland's Forgotten Futures.

These films propelled the careers of modern celebrities such as Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bruce Willis, Eddie Murphy, Mel Gibson and Sylvester Stallone to international recognition.

Cyberspace, the world's computer systems considered as an interconnected whole, can be thought of as a virtual reality ; for instance, it is portrayed as such in the cyberpunk fiction of William Gibson and others.

At the same time Andrzej Wajda began his work as a director in theatre, including such as Michael V. Gazzo's A Hatful of Rain ( 1959 ), Hamlet ( 1960 ), and Two for the Seesaw ( 1963 ) by William Gibson.

The term " amphitheatre " is also used ( incorrectly ) for some indoor venues such as the Gibson Amphitheatre.

While pitchers of the 1960s such as Bob Gibson regarded it a pitcher's right to throw high and inside, later batters were more likely to take offense at such treatment.

Gibson also manufactures biscuit-style single-resonator guitars, but it sells them under names such as Hound Dog and Epiphone.

His scratchy pen-and-ink style is influenced by the impressionists, illustrators of the age of " liberated penmanship " such as Phil May, Charles Dana Gibson, John Leech and George du Maurier, and cartoonists Milton Caniff and Frank Frazetta ( particularly his Johnny Comet strip ).

The committee included, Canon Theodore Gibson, Rector of Christ Episcopal Church in Coconut Grove, who was to become the leader of Miami's Civil Rights Movement, David A. Douglas, manager of the Atlanta Life Insurance Company and others such as Rev.

One of the oldest non-Indian settlements in Oklahoma, Fort Gibson had other firsts for Oklahoma, such as:

He has also used Guild, Takamine and Gibson J-200 acoustic models, with the J-200 providing his signature recorded acoustic sound in such songs as " Pinball Wizard ".

There are several Gibson Pete Townshend signature guitars, such as the Pete Townshend SG, the Pete Townshend J-200, and three different Pete Townshend Les Paul Deluxes.

During the 1980s and 1990s, Ritts photographed celebrities such as Diana Ross, Christopher Reeve, Belinda Carlisle, Michael Jackson, Britney Spears, Madonna, Mariah Carey, Michael Jordan, Dalai Lama, Mikhail Gorbachev, Francesco Clemente, George Clooney, Cher, Mel Gibson, Elizabeth Taylor, Brad Pitt, Ronald Reagan, Julia Roberts, Steven Hawking, Nicole Kidman, Edward Norton, Tom Cruise, Michelle Pfeiffer, Dizzy Gillespie, Elton John, Annette Benning, Antonio Banderas, Richard Gere, Jack Nicholson, Cindy Crawford, and Tina Turner.

Zero drove Downey into films with bigger budgets and names, such as Chances Are ( 1989 ) with Cybill Shepherd and Ryan O ' Neal, Air America ( 1990 ) with Mel Gibson, and Soapdish ( 1991 ) with Sally Field, Kevin Kline and Whoopi Goldberg.

" Future noir films such as Blade Runner, Twelve Monkeys, Dark City, and Children of Men use a protagonist who is "... increasingly dubious, alienated and fragmented ", at once " dark and playful like the characters in Gibson ’ s Neuromancer ", yet still with the "... shadow of Philip Marlowe ..."

Encouraged by a publisher who was also an artist, Gibson was joined in Life ’ s early days by such well-known illustrators as Palmer Cox ( creator of the Brownie ), A.