#bruce sutter

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November 7, 1979

#OnThisDay in @chicagocubs history ▸ Bruce Sutter is named the 1979 National League Cy Young Awardee.  Over 62 games, the 26 year-old pitched 101⅓ innings, went 37-for-47 in save opportunities, posted 110 strikeouts, and held opponents to a .186 batting average.

Sutter became the second Cubs player to win the Cy Young (following Fergie Jenkins ′71 performance). With 10 of 24 first place votes Sutter narrowly outpolls former Cub Joe Niekro of the @houstonastr0s and thereby becomes only the third relief pitcher to win the award in its 23‐year history.

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Happy Birthday In Heaven Bruce Sutter

~ The Baseball HOF relief pitcher was born on this day in 1953.

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The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person's determination. --Bruce Sutter

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Bruce Sutter throws the final pitch as the St. Louis Cardinals win the 1982 World Series in seven games!

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Hall of Fame reliever, Cy Young winner Bruce Sutter passes away

Hall of Fame reliever, Cy Young winner Bruce Sutter passes away

After a brief battle with cancer, Hall of Fame pitcher and World Series winner Bruce Sutter passed yesterday at age 69, leaving baseball without a pitching pioneer. Sutter, a full-bearded closer who invented the sharp-dropping pitch that came to rule big league batters for decades and also paid for his elbow surgery as a low minor leaguer, passed away on Thursday. In Lancaster, Pennsylvania,…

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