Today's "Nicknames of the 70s" profile is pitching great and future Hall of Fame member Fergie "Fly" Jenkins.
Check out my card design:
I used the 1971 template since he would take home his only Cy Young
Award that season, and he was smack in the middle of an incredible run
of six straight 20-win seasons, as well as five straight 200+ strikeout
campaigns.
He was amazing!
He'd eventually post six 20-win seasons, six 200-strikeout seasons,
five 300+-inning years, four sub-3.00 E.R.A. Years and become the first
pitcher in Major League history to finish with 3000+ strikeouts with
LESS than 1000 base on balls.
Overall in 19-seasons Jenkins finished with a 284-226 record, with a
3.34 earned run average, 49 shutouts and 3192 strikeouts over 664
games, 594 of which were starts.
In 1991 he was elected into the baseball Hall of Fame on his third
try, gaining 75.4% of the vote, thus sealing his star legacy forever.
"Fly!"
