WilliamTheIrish |
07-24-2015 07:08 PM |
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Originally Posted by tk13
(Post 11616465)
Yeah, I'm not old enough to have seen him pitch but I know he was great. I was just reading an interview with Dale Murphy the other day and he said the toughest pitcher he ever faced was JR Richard.
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The manager of the Astros at the time ...name escapes me... Had a staff of JR Richard and Nolan Ryan with Joe Niekro fluttering knuckleballs in between their starts.
Talk about messing up some hitters.
Also, if you google the SI story on this when it happened, JR had teammates saying he was faking and even the front office ignored him.
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