Chris Short Marquee

In September 1964 Philadelphia led the National League by six and a half games with twelve to play and lost ten in a row. He and Jim Bunning were started on two days' rest through the worst of it, and he finished 17-9 with a 2.20 earned run average, the best of his career, in the season nobody in that city discusses willingly.

Fifteen seasons gave him 135 wins against 132, a 3.43 earned run average, 2,325 innings and 1,629 strikeouts. Fourteen were with the Phillies, for whom only Steve Carlton, Robin Roberts and a couple of moderns have struck out more. He won 20 games in 1966 and had a 2.39 earned run average in 1967.

A ruptured disc in 1969 required spinal surgery and cost him the middle of the career. He sold insurance in Delaware afterward, suffered a brain aneurysm in 1988 and never recovered, and died in 1991 at fifty-three. The 1979 ballot gave him one vote of 432.