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Four 20-Game Winners

"Four 20-game winners - and no pennant!" 
As it says on the back of the 1973 Laughlin/Fleer Wildest Days and Plays card: "Only twice in baseball history has a team had four pitchers win 20 games each in the same season. It happened in 1971 when the Baltimore Orioles turned the trick - only to lose the World Series. In 1920 the Chicago White Sox had a quartet who won at least 21 games each: Red Faber (23-13), Lefty Williams (22-14), Dickie Kerr (21-9), and Ed Cicotte (21-10). Yet the Sox finished second to the Cleveland Indians! It was just as well for baseball that Chicago didn't win, because just before the World Series the scandal broke about White Sox players involved in an attempted "fix" of the 1919 Series, and two of the players were Williams and Cicotte, also 20-game winners in 1919."

I couldn't have said it better - so I didn't.

The four Orioles card above is an art card I purchased on Ebay.


The four White Sox cards are 1988 Pacific cards from the movie "Eight Men Out." A great movie about the scandal. Notice that the "Sox" logo is in black for the two players permanently banned from baseball. The Eight Men Out set is fun also because it includes cards of the actors that played in the movie, including Charlie Sheen, David Strathairn, and John Cusack.

The four Orioles cards are 1972 Topps, a team that lost the World Series to the Pittsburgh Pirates in seven games. That was a great World Series!

The two HoFers from this group are Red Faber and Jim Palmer.

Thanks for visiting!
CinciCuse Bill
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  1. FujiJanuary 10, 2020 at 9:06 AM

    I was always fascinated by that 71 Orioles rotation. Four 20 game winners without a pennant. That's gotta be rough.

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