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Jim Kaat turns 88. Born November 7, 1938, in Zeeland, Michigan, the 6'4" lefty pitched in the big leagues from 1959 to 1983. That’s 25 seasons across four decades, a major league record for a pitcher when he set it. He broke in with the Washington Senators, moved with the club to Minnesota, and was the last of those original Senators still active when he finally retired.
Kaat was the backbone of the Twins staff in the ’60s. He won 18 games for the 1965 pennant winners and started the clincher on September 26, back in Washington of all places. Then came 1966, his best year. He went 25-13 and led the league with 41 starts, 19 complete games and over 300 innings. Only one Cy Young was handed out for both leagues back then and it went to Sandy Koufax, but The Sporting News named Kaat AL Pitcher of the Year.
October is where Kaat’s story really shines. In Game 2 of the 1965 World Series he went the distance and beat Koufax 5-1, and helped himself with a two-run single. The Twins took the first two games but the Dodgers fought back. Kaat started Game 7 on two days’ rest and kept L.A. scoreless into the fourth before leaving. Koufax shut out the Twins 2-0 and the Dodgers took the title. Kaat got back to the postseason in the 1970 ALCS with Minnesota and the 1976 NLCS with the Phillies. His ring finally came in 1982 with the Cardinals, when at 43 he pitched in relief in four games of the World Series against Milwaukee.
In between, the Twins figured he was done and let the White Sox grab him in August 1973. Back with his old pitching coach Johnny Sain, Kaat won 21 games in 1974 and 20 in 1975, often with a quick-pitch delivery. He’s still the Twins’ all-time leader with 189 wins.
He could field and hit, too. Kaat won 16 straight Gold Gloves from 1962 through 1977 and hit 16 home runs. He’s also the last true pitcher to be intentionally walked. That was September 1970, when the Brewers walked him to load the bases in the 11th and Cesar Tovar made them pay with a two-run single.
My favorite Kaat story is Opening Day 1965. An ice and snow storm left him stranded outside the city, so the Twins sent a helicopter. He landed in the Met Stadium parking lot, started the game, and the Twins beat the Yankees in 11 innings.
Cooperstown took its time with him. Kaat never topped 30% in 15 years on the writers’ ballot. The Veterans Committee gave him 54% in 2005 and 63% in 2007, and in 2015 he came up two votes short. Finally, in 2022, the Golden Days Era committee voted him in, and the Twins retired his number 36 that summer.
A lot of you know his voice as well as his arm. Kaat called games for the Twins and Yankees and was on MLB Network from its start in 2009 until 2022.
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Q. Who was the first pitcher to face Jackie Robinson in a regular season National League game?
Hint: #1 He later faced him in the World Series.
Hint: #2 He was the coach of the player who broke Babe Ruth’s most cherished record.
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"Spahn and Sain and pray for rain," was the Braves' motto for the 1948 stretch drive
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November 7, 1922 – The Philadelphia Phillies fire manager Kaiser Wilhelm. Veteran shortstop Art Fletcher succeeds him as the Manager.
November 7, 1928 — The Boston Braves trade National League batting champion Rogers Hornsby to the Chicago Cubs for $200,000 and players Freddie Maguire (IF), Percy Jones (P), Lou Legett (C), Socks Seibold and P Bruce Cunningham. The hard-hitting Hornsby, who posted a .387 batting average with 21 home runs for the Braves, will enjoy another spectacular season in 1929 for his new club. He will compile a .380 average with 39 home runs and 149 RBI and win the MVP Award. Braves owner-president Emil Fuchs also decides to be his own manager. Under Fuchs, the Braves will finish 56-98, good for last place. He will be the last manager with no professional playing experience until Ted Turner’s one game on May 11, 1977.
November 7, 1963 — New York Yankees catcher Elston Howard becomes the first black player to win the American League MVP Award. Howard beats out Al Kaline of the Detroit Tigers by 248 votes to 148 in the balloting.
Howard had 28 HR, 85 RBI, & .287 BA. Howard becomes the first black player in American League history to win the MVP Award. Howard Joins Roger Maris (1960-61) and Mickey Mantle (1962), the New York catcher becomes the third consecutive Yankee to win the MVP.
November 7, 1967 –St. Louis Cardinals first baseman Orlando Cepeda becomes only the second National League player to unanimously win the MVP Award. Cepeda batted .325 with 25 home runs and 111 RBI in leading the Cardinals to the pennant. New York Giants pitcher Carl Hubbell swept the National League MVP voting in 1936.
November 7, 1973 — “The institution of Little League is as American as the hot dog and apple pie. There is no reason why that part of Americana should be withheld from girls” – Sylvia Pressler, explaining her ruling in favor of girls being allowed to play Little League.
Sylvia Pressler was a hearing examiner for the New Jersey Civil Rights Division as New Jersey became the first state to allow girls to play on Little League baseball teams. Prior to the decision, regulations had prohibited girls from participating with boys in the program.
November 7, 1989 – Gregg Olson of the Baltimore Orioles becomes the first relief pitcher to win the American League Rookie of the Year Award. Olson receives 26 of 28 first-place votes. Tom Gordon and Ken Griffey, Jr. are runner-ups.
November 7, 2006, Johnny Sain passes away at age 89, in Downers Grove, Illinois. He was a former pitcher who later gained notoriety as one of the most successful and influential pitching coaches in baseball. Sain pitched 11 seasons in the big leagues and won 20 games four times, including three straight seasons. With the Braves he teamed with Warren Spahn to form the famous duo that prompted the saying “Spahn and Sain and pray for rain.” His work with pitching staffs was remarkable. In 14 seasons as a coach, he produced 17 20-game winners. Known for his philosophy that running was unnecessary for pitchers, Sain’s star pupils were Jim Kaat, Stan Bahnsen, Mickey Lolich, and Wilbur Wood.
Milestones November 7
🎙️ Did you know? Johnny Sain passed away November 7 . . . .
"Spahn and Sain and pray for rain," was the Braves' motto for the 1948 stretch drive, as they pushed toward their first pennant since 1914. That season Spahn was actually not much more effective than the Braves' third and fourth starters, Bill Voiselle and Vern Bickford. Sain, however, led the NL with 24 wins, 39 starts, 28 complete games, and 314 innings.
A rookie in 1942, he spent 1943-45 in the military, but lost no time establishing himself upon his return. He won 20 each year from 1946 to 1948, slumped in 1949, but came back with a 20-13 mark in 1950. Although Sain could strike men out when the occasion demanded, the 6'2" Arkansan had pinpoint control and a let-'em-hit-it philosophy. In three of his 20-win seasons, he led the league in hits allowed. Sent to the Yankees in August 1951 for Lew Burdette and $50,000, he contributed 11-6 and 14-7 marks to the 1952 and '53 Yankee pennants, then led the AL with 22 saves in 1954.
An excellent-hitting pitcher (.245), Sain averaged .346 in 1947 and .353 in 1954, and led the NL with 16 sacrifice hits in 1948. He became an instructor and ML pitching coach with the A's, Yankees, Twins, Tigers, Angels, White Sox, and Braves. He became known for developing 20-game-winners in tight, four-man rotations. Whitey Ford, Jim Kaat, Earl Wilson, Denny McLain, Clyde Wright, Stan Bahnsen, and Wilbur Wood all had their biggest seasons under Sain's supervision. Loved by his pitchers, often hated by his jealous managers, he coached five ML teams that won pennants. Jim Bouton has called Sain "the greatest pitching coach who ever lived." When Sain was fired by Yogi Berra, Bouton said, "What general likes a lieutenant that's smarter?"
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ANSWER TO TODAY’S TRIVIA
TRIVIA ANSWER: JOHNNY SAIN
- Ans. Sain, the Braves’ starting pitcher on 15-Apr-1947, got Robinson to ground out, fly out, reach on an E & GIDP.
- #1 Pitching for NYY, Sain faced Robinson again in the 1952 & 1953 WS, going hitless, but walking 4 X, 2 X intentionally.
- #2 Sain was the pitching coach for NYY 1961-63, the period when Whitey Ford finished stringing together his 33⅔ consecutive scoreless WS innings, breaking the record of 29⅔ Ruth had held since 1918.
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