10 Best Pitchers by Tom Seaver : A Legendary List on Baseball Almanac

The 10 Best Pitchers

Terrific Tom Seaver won three-hundred eleven games, struck out more than two-hundred batters over nine consecutive seasons, won three Cy Young Awards, and was voted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame with a percentage higher than any other person in the hall. In The Art of Pitching (1994), Tom Seaver shares with book-readers the skills needed to succeed at the position and his personal list of the 10 Best Pitchers.

"My idea of managing is giving the ball to Tom Seaver and sitting down and watching him work." - Sparky Anderson

The 10 Best Pitchers by Tom Seaver (1994)
Rank	Name [Click For Stats]
10	Nolan Ryan
9	Warren Spahn
8	Bob Gibson
7	Steve Carlton
6	Bob Feller
5	Cy Young
4	Lefty Grove
3	Sandy Koufax
2	Christy Mathewson
1	Walter Johnson
The 10 Best Pitchers by Tom Seaver

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In National Baseball Hall of Fame voting, Tom Seaver received four-hundred twenty-five votes out of a possible four-hundred thirty — the highest percentage ever received by any player.

On April 22, 1970, Tom Seaver set a record for consecutive strikeouts in a game with ten. Did you know that immediately preceeding that record setting game he was presented with his first Cy Young Award and went on to finish the game with a career high nineteen strikeouts?

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