Card of the Week

The card of the week is one of my favorite all time pitchers, Don Drysdale. A congenial guy as a broadcaster, Don was a beast on the mound. He would throw at batters who would dig in too much or take too long to get in the batters box. Drysdale was a fairly fast worker on the mount. A typical game was about 2 hours long. Now a typical game seems to push 3 hours; they are slow and laborious. In 1968 he pitched shut out after shut out setting a record for consecutive scoreless innings that was eventually broken by Orel Hershiser of the same LA Dodgers.

Teaming up with Sandy Koufax; he and Drysdale were pretty much a sure thing when they pitched. If their Dodgers could have had more firepower offensively, who knows how many games they would have won. You can check a reference to his Hall of Fame career here. They do not make them like the Big D anymore, and mores the pity for it.