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* Bill Hands ( born 1940 ), former professional baseball pitcher who was a 20-game winner for the Chicago Cubs.
McCarthy spent nine months as a novice before he left the monastery, causing a fellow novice to say, " It was like losing a 20-game winner.
He was a five-time 20-game winner and two-time Cy Young Award winner, and one of only 24 pitchers ( and just 6 left-handers ) in major league history to earn 300 career wins.
With the NHL reduced to two teams eighteen games into its 20-game season, a decision was made to have the two remaining teams — coincidentally the two teams leading each half of the season — compete in a best-of-seven series to see which team would head west to battle against the Pacific Coast Hockey Association champions.
The October 30 game with the Florida Blazers was moved from Orlando to Birmingham, giving the Americans 11 home games in their 20-game regular season.
He was the third of the Orioles ' four 20-game winners in 1971 to perish, following Dave McNally in 2002 and Pat Dobson in 2006.
He was one of the starters on the last rotation to feature four 20-game winners in a single season in 1971.
He was one of four 20-game winners in the Orioles starting rotation in 1971, only the second rotation in major league history to include four 20-game winners.
A 20-game winner for 4 consecutive years, he was known for his post-season performance and for staring down batters when pitching to them.
A team folding in mid-season was not unusual for the WFL ( the Jacksonville Sharks and Detroit Wheels had died 14 games into a 20-game regular season in 1974 ), so the league was prepared.
Born in Nitro, West Virginia, Burdette was signed by the New York Yankees in 1947, and after making two relief appearances for the team in September 1950, he was traded to the Braves in August 1951 for four-time 20-game winner Johnny Sain.
He was back-to-back 20-game winner in both 2004 and 2005.
He won more than 20 games for 4 consecutive seasons ( 1968 through 1971 ) and was one of four 20-game winners for the 1971 Orioles ( Pat Dobson, Jim Palmer, and Mike Cuellar were the other three ).
At the time, the 20-game suspension was the fourth longest in NHL history.
Pinch-hitting was relatively new to Hatteberg, who admitted that it was a role he was not particularly comfortable in even though he had hit his historic September 4, 2002 20-game winning-streak clinching walk-off homer for Oakland as a pinch-hitter.
Pascual was a 20-game winner twice, in 1962 – 63, and also finished with a career-high in complete games ( 18 ) in both of those seasons.

was and season
There never was a season before, but now they want to thin 'em out on account of the drouth ''.
The nest itself, the structure that in some cases housed about 2,000 individuals when the season was at its peak, is now rapidly destroyed by the scavenging larvae of certain beetles and moths.
One month ago, on the 20th of October, was the opening of the gunning season in Massachusetts.
But he was scholastically ineligible in 1959 and merely present last season.
Saxton has made only one second-half appearance this season and that was in the Washington State game, for four plays: he returned the kickoff 30 yards, gained five yards through the line and then uncorked a 56-yard touchdown run before retiring to the bench.
It was the first time we've been ahead this season ( when John Richey kicked what proved to be the winning field goal ) ''.
It was Nischwitz' third straight victory of the new season and ran the Grizzlies' winning streak to four straight.
He was there one season before rejoining the Steelers as an assistant coach.
Perhaps the Pirate who will be the unhappiest over the news that Musial probably will sit out most of the series is Bob Friend, who was beaten by The Man twice last season on dramatic home runs.
In addition, a special award was given to Bob ( Bevo ) Nordmann, the 6-foot-10 center who missed much of the season because of a knee injury.
The victory was the first of the season for the Billikens after nine defeats and a tie.
Enrique Jorda, conductor and musical director of the San Francisco Symphony, will fulfill two more guest conducting engagements in Europe before returning home to open the symphony's Golden Anniversary season, it was announced.
Rococo music -- a lot of it -- was played in Carnegie Recital Hall on Saturday night in the first of four concerts being sponsored this season by a new organization known as Globe Concert Arts.
There was night and day, but no setting of crops, no change of season, no generations of men.
The first Academy Awards ceremony was held on May 16, 1929, at the Hotel Roosevelt in Hollywood to honor the outstanding film achievements of the 1927 / 1928 film season.
When Peate returned to the pavilion he was reprimanded by his captain for not allowing his partner, Charles Studd ( one of the best batsman in England, having already hit two centuries that season against the colonists ) to get the runs.
This was all done under complete secrecy during the playing season because players were all free agents in those days and they did not want their current club and especially the fans to know they were leaving to play elsewhere the next year.
The 1971 season was their first with a winning record.
Every game during the 2002 season was sold out.
Vick, who saw minimal playing time in 2001, playing backup and learning the system under then-starting quarterback Chris Chandler, was designated starting quarterback for the 2002 season.
The 2002 season was the Falcons ' first in the more geographically-accurate NFC South upon NFL realignment.
In 2004, a new head coach, Jim L. Mora, was hired and Michael Vick returned for the full season.
After finishing the season 7 – 9, however, coach Jim Mora was dismissed and Bobby Petrino, the University of Louisville's football coach, replaced him.
Before the 2007 season began, Vick was suspended indefinitely by the NFL after pleading guilty to charges involving dog fighting in the state of Virginia.
Matt Ryan started all 16 games in his rookie season and was named the Associated Press Offensive Rookie of the Year.

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