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One of baseball's fiercest competitors, hard-throwing right-hander Don Drysdale pitched 14 seasons from 1956 to 1969 for the Brooklyn and Los Angeles Dodgers, ranking second on the franchise career list in wins with 209, games pitched with 518, strikeouts with 2,486, innings pitched with 3,432.1, and shutouts with 49. The National League strikeout leader in 1959 and 1960, Big D earned the league's Cy Young Award in 1962, when he was 25 and led the league in strikeouts for a third time. A member of three World Championship clubs in 1959, 1963 and 1965 and two other pennant winners in 1956 and 1966, he set a then-Major League record in 1968 by throwing 58.2 consecutive scoreless innings, including a record six straight shutouts. Drysdale was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1984.
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