104: Jim McCormick-MLB

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Jim McCormick might not be a name familiar to most baseball fans, but it should be. After all, how many pitchers have tossed over 500-innings in a season five times AND 657 2/3 innings in one year? McCormick had seasons of 45, 40, 36 and 31 wins. He started 485 games and completed 466 of them. He won 265 games over his 10-year career (average of 26 per season) and posted an ERA of 2.43. But those numbers, as impressive as they are, pale in comparison to the other numbers that Jay Wiley has discovered when it comes to Jim McCormick. Wiley is on a mission and believes the fact that Jim McCormick not being a member of the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York is one of baseball’s biggest injustices. His arguments made it hard to disagree. In fact, Wiley created a website documenting all of this – mccormickforthehall.com – and he posts daily about the career of McCormick on twitter. On this episode of Sports’ Forgotten Heroes, I welcome Jay to the show for a terrific discussion about a pitcher whom time has forgotten and a guy who hasn’t been considered for the Hall since 1950, despite several of his contemporaries, guys whose stats don’t measure up to Jim’s, gaining induction.

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