The first Opening Day of the new decade brought baseball fans a brand new statistic and the season highlight in an otherwise horrible season for one pitcher. Here’s how things went down on April 9th, 1980.
Filling in for an ill Tom Seaver, Frank Pastore draws the Opening Day start for the #Reds and beats the #Braves 9-0 and a new statistic is born. Here’s the story.
Seattle had high hopes for their pitching staff heading into 1980, but one pitcher in particular had a nightmare year. Here’s the story.
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An excerpt from Patrick Montgomery's new book, Baseball's Great Expectations: Candid Stories of Ballplayers Who…