Bob Gibson, PSA 7, MLB Hall of Fame, WS MVP, Cy Young Winner, NL MVP, All-Star

Description: Played his entire career for the St. Louis Cardinals from 1959 to 1975. Known for his fiercely competitive nature, Gibson tallied 251 wins, 3,117 strikeouts, and a 2.91 earned run average. A nine-time All-Star and two-time World Series Champion, he won two Cy Young Awards and the 1968 National League Most Valuable Player Award. He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1981, his first year of eligibility, and the Cardinals retired his uniform number 45 in September 1975, the year he retired. Gibson was later selected for the Major League Baseball All-Century Team in 1999. He won nine Gold Glove Awards, the National League Cy Young Award in 1968 and 1970. His 1.12 earned run average and 13 shutouts in 1968 are both records in the live-ball era. Across 482 games started, he pitched 56 shutouts and 255 complete games, he holds the Cardinals franchise pitching records for wins, games started, complete games, shutouts, innings pitched, and strikeouts. As a hitter, he had a lifetime batting average of .206 with 24 home runs and 144 runs batted in. Gibson was sometimes used by the Cardinals as a pinch-hitter, and in 1970 he hit .303 for the season in 109 at-bats. The 1968 season became known as "The Year of the Pitcher", and Gibson was at the forefront of pitching dominance. His earned run average was 1.12, a live-ball era record, as well as the major league record in 300 or more innings pitched. It was the lowest major league ERA since Dutch Leonard's 0.96 mark 54 years earlier. Gibson threw 13 shutouts. He won all 12 starts in June and July, pitching a complete game every time, (eight of which were shutouts), and allowed only six earned runs in 108 innings pitched (a 0.50 ERA). Gibson pitched 47 consecutive scoreless innings during this stretch, at the time the third-longest scoreless streak in major league history. He also struck out 91 batters, and he won two consecutive NL Player of the Month awards. Gibson finished the season with 28 complete games out of 34 games started. Of the games he didn't complete, he was pinch-hit for, meaning Gibson was not removed from the mound for another pitcher for the entire season. Gibson won the National League MVP Award. With Denny McLain winning the American League's Most Valuable Player award, 1968 remains, to date, the only year both MVP Awards went to pitchers, with McLain compiling a 31–6 record for the Detroit Tigers. For the 1968 season, opposing batters only had a batting average of .184, an on-base percentage of .233, and a slugging percentage of .236. Gibson is considered one of the greatest postseason pitchers in baseball history. Across three World Series and nine games started, he had a record of 7-2 with a 1.89 ERA and 92 strikeouts. He became the second player, after Sandy Koufax, to win two World Series MVP awards, receiving the honor in 1964 and 1967. In 1964, he set a World Series record for most strikeouts in a seven-game World Series with 31, a record he broke in 1968 when he recorded 35, including a record 17 strikeouts in Game 1. Additionally, Gibson is one of two pitchers, the other being Dave McNally, to hit two home runs in World Series play, hitting one each in the 1967 and 1968 World Series. Gibson played college basketball & baseball at Creighton University. At the end of his junior basketball season, he averaged 22 points per game. In 1957, Gibson received a US $3,000 (equivalent to about $32,550 in 2023) bonus to sign with the Cardinals. He delayed his start with the organization for a year, playing basketball with the Harlem Globetrotters. However, he gave up the Harlem Globetrotters as a player due to long travels and many double-headers. Off the field, Gibson, along with teammates Bill White and Curt Flood, started a movement to make all players live in the same clubhouse and hotel rooms. Their campaign led the St. Louis Cardinals to become the first sports team to end segregation, three years before President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964. MLB debut - April 15, 1959, for the St. Louis CardinalsLast MLB appearance - September 3, 1975, for the St. Louis Cardinals MLB statistics Win–loss record251–174 Earned run average2.91 Strikeouts3,117 St. Louis Cardinals (1959–1975)Career highlights and awards 9× All-Star (1962, 1962², 1965–1970, 1972) 2× World Series champion (1964, 1967) NL MVP (1968) 2× NL Cy Young Award (1968, 1970) 2× World Series MVP (1964, 1967) 9× Gold Glove Award (1965–1973) NL wins leader (1970) MLB ERA leader (1968) NL strikeout leader (1968) Pitched a no-hitter on August 14, 1971 St. Louis Cardinals No. 45 retired St. Louis Cardinals Hall of Fame Major League Baseball All-Century Team Member of the National Baseball Hall of Fame - Induction1981 - Vote84.0% (first ballot)

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