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He won 174 games, nine more than Sandy Koufax, which makes him the winningest Jewish pitcher the game has had, and the comparison followed him from the day the Cubs called him up at nineteen. He threw a no-hitter against Atlanta in 1969 without striking out a single batter, and another at Cincinnati in 1971.

Oakland traded for him in 1972 and he won 19, 21 and 18 games in the three seasons the Athletics won the World Series, and four postseason games in them. Fifteen seasons gave him 174 wins against 150, a 3.49 earned run average, 2,867 innings and 31 shutouts.

He sat out Yom Kippur, as Koufax had, and was traded to Baltimore and then to the Yankees, where George Steinbrenner and Billy Martin had no use for him and he pitched 44 games across three seasons. Two ballots gave him four votes and then five. He died in 2024, at seventy-eight.