Juan Marichal

Juan Antonio Marichal Sánchez, born October 20, 1937, is a Dominican former right-handed pitcher who played 16 seasons in Major League Baseball from 1960 to 1975, mostly with the San Francisco Giants. Nicknamed "the Dominican Dandy," he was known for his high leg kick, his variety of pitches, arm angles, and deliveries, his pinpoint control, and his durability. Marichal won 18 games to help the Giants reach the 1962 World Series, and went on to earn 191 victories during the 1960s, the most of any major league pitcher in the decade. He won more than 20 games six times, on each occasion posting an earned run average below 2.50 and striking out more than 200 batters, and he became the first right-hander since Bob Feller to win 25 games three times. His 26 wins in 1968 remain a San Francisco era record. Marichal twice led the National League in wins, innings pitched, complete games, and shutouts. He was often overshadowed by his contemporaries Sandy Koufax and Bob Gibson; in each of his four best seasons, one of the two won the Cy Young Award by unanimous vote. He pitched a no-hitter in June 1963, and two weeks later outdueled Warren Spahn for a 1–0 victory in 16 innings.