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10+ Essential Facts About the 300 Win Club
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Here is some interesting trivia about the pitchers in the 300 Win Club.
| 1. | James Galvin was the first pitcher in baseball history to reach 300 wins for his career, when he defeated the Indianapolis Hoosiers 5-4 on September 4, 1888. |
| 2. | Kid Nichols was the youngest pitcher ever to reach 300 career wins, when he beat the Chicago Orphans (later the Cubs) by a score of 5-4 in 1900 when he was only 30 years old. |
| 3. | John Clarkson and Christy Mathewson are the only two pitchers to reach 300 wins before they appeared in 500 games. |
| 4. | Phil Neikro had only 31 career wins when he turned 30. He had just 197 wins when he turned 40. The great knuckleball pitcher was still able to collect 300 wins. Neikro picked up career win number 300 when he was 46 years, 6 months and 5 days old. |
| 5. | Cy Young also has the most career losses of any pitcher in history with 313. |
| 6. | Legendary screwball pitcher Christy Mathewson has the lowest career ERA (2.13) of any member of the 300 Win Club. Early Wynn has the highest ERA in the fraternity, at 3.54. |
| 7. | Nolan Ryan has ridden his legendary fastball to the most career strikeouts in the 300 Win Club, with 5,714 lifetime Ks. |
| 8. | Charles “Old Hoss” Radbourn has the least career strikeouts in the club, with just 1,830. |
| 9. | During a career in which he won 324 games, Don Sutton only surpassed 20 wins one time, when he collected 21 victories for the Los Angeles Dodgers in 1976. Sutton has the fewest 20 win seasons of any member of the 300 Win Club. |
| 10. | In sharp contrast to Sutton, Cy Young won more than 20 games fifteen times, and won more than 30 games in five different seasons. |
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