 | irishgit (138)
07/05/2007 | A very good staff, when they weren't busy throwing ballgames.
That's not entirely fair, since only Cicotte and Williams were pitchers who participated in the 1919 Series fix. However, they were the best pitchers on the staff, so.....
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 | oscargamblesfro (77)
06/29/2007 | Red Faber, a very good pitcher, among the best in the AL in some years, made the Hall of Fame, and Cicotte had a good chance of making it. Claude Williams had some big win totals, and the kid Dickie Kerr was also good.All four won 20 or more in 1920.That wouldn't be repeated until the '71 Orioles, but Williams and Cicotte were soon barred for throwing the '19 Series, and Kerr joined them a couple of years later for participating in barnstorming games with barred White Sox players. Faber remained one of the better AL hurlers of the 20's but even with the addition of a Hall of Famer named Ted Lyons, the team was usually pretty terrible all the way into the 50's. A very good staff, but probably not particularly high on a list of the best ever.
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