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About the Steve Carlton
Steven Norman Carltonis an American former professional baseball player. He played in Major League Baseball as a left-handed pitcher for six different teams from 1965 to 1988, most notably as a member of the Philadelphia Phillies with whom he won four Cy Young Awards as well as the 1980 World Series. He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1994.
Nicknamed “Lefty”, Carlton has the second-most lifetime strikeouts of any left-handed pitcherof his team’s wins, when he won 27 games for the last-place1972 Phillies. He is the last National League pitcher to win 25 or more games in one season, as well as the last pitcher from any team to throw more than 300 innings in a season. He also holds the record for the most career balks of any pitcher, with 90 (double the second on the all-time list, Bob Welch; Welch ironically being the last pitcher to win at least 25 games in the American League).
Frequently Asked Questions
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I took it personal. I got slammed quite a bit.
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That’s the past. I don’t agree with retrospect.
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The final release point for the fastball is the tips of your fingers.
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Pete Rose came over to the Phillies in ’79 and he became the catalyst that helped us to put it all together.
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To pick up the paper and read about yourself getting slammed, that doesn’t start your day off right.
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To get the feel of how the slider should roll off of your index finger, use this grip and practice at half speed and roughly half the distance to the mound.
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I trained myself to perform on the field.
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You’ve gotta find a way to get out of your own way, so you can progress in life.
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Everything I was, physically and mentally, that’s what I put on that field.
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My major league debut came at old Busch Stadium on Grand Avenue in St. Louis against the Pittsburgh Pirates.
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And the irony is that they wrote better without access to my quotes.
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But I would say basically, I would just like to be remembered for what I did on the field.
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I was probably in the best shape of any athlete at the time, but you don’t get to pass judgment on yourself.
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It’s all quotes, anyway, and it all sounds the same to me.
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So what I did on the field was the essence of what I am. Remember me like that.
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Rooting is following, and I don’t do that, but I’d like to see the Phillies win because I love Philadelphia.
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