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1. He won 17 consecutive games in a season against no losses.
2. He retired with the same number of career home runs as Frank Thomas and Ted Williams.
3. He made the final out in Don Larsen's World Series perfect game.
4. He threw the most strikeouts in the decade of the 1960s.
5. This Hall of Fame great died in 2015.
6. It took this Hall of Fame great his first four seasons to win a total of 20 games.
7. March 1992 saw one of the worst trades in baseball history when the White Sox traded Sammy Sosa and Ken Patterson to the Cubs for this player.
8. This one player came so close to being traded for Willie Mays, Juan Marichal, Orlando Cepeda, and money in a deal.
9. He pitched 17 seasons in a Giants uniform, was traded and pitched one game with another team, then retired.
10. Nicknamed "Kitten", this pitcher threw a perfect game over nine innings but was never given credit for the perfect game.
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