Steve Carlton is a former left-handed pitcher in
Major League Baseball, from 1965 to 1988, who retired as one of the
most successful pitchers to ever play the game, elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1994. He was affectionately known to Philadelphia fans as "Lefty." He
played the greatest number of years for the Philadelphia Phillies,
receiving his greatest acclaim as a professional and winning four Cy Young Awards. Carlton has the second-most lifetime strikeouts of any left-handed
pitcher (4th overall), and the second-most lifetime wins of any
left-handed pitcher (11th overall). He was the first pitcher to win four
Cy Young Awards in a career. He held the lifetime strikeout record
several times between 1982 and 1984, before his contemporary Nolan Ryan
passed him. One of his most remarkable records was accounting for
nearly half (46%) of his team's wins, when he won 27 games for the
last-place (59-97) 1972 Phillies. He is still 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.
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