STRIKEOUTS BY PITCHERS ALL-TIME LEADERS
The Top 1,000 All-Time Strikeout Pitchers | Baseball Almanac
A tale once told by an umpire featured Walter Johnson on the mound pitching, with two strikes on a young batter, who unexpectedly turned and started walked towards the dugout. The umpire reminded him that he had a strike left to which the player replied, "You can call it, I didn't see the first two!"
The top 1,000 all-time strikeout career leaders in Major League Baseball history, as researched by Baseball Almanac. Note: A bold faced entry denotes that the pitcher was active during the previous Major League season.
"I can't think of anything more humiliating than losing a ballgame to a guy who steals home on you." - Ryan, Nolan. Hall of Fame Pitcher. The Best of Baseball Digest: The Greatest Players, The Greatest Games, the Greatest Writers from the Game's Most Exciting Years. Kuenster, John. Author. Ivan R. Dee Publishing. Page 206.
Did you know that Roger Clemens, ranked third overall on the all-time top 1,000 strikeout research, struck out a Major League record twenty batters during a game — on two different occasions?
What right-handed pitcher had the most strikeouts in just the National League? What lefty struckout the most batters in the American League? Find those records, and dozens more, in the MLB Strikeout Records Set by Pitchers in our Baseball Records research.
The first 3,000 Strikeouts Club (pitchers with three thousand or more career striksouts) memorabilia show was conducted in 1998, in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Examine the box scores, trivia, age related data, and more research about this truly elite group of pitchers.
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