The 300 Club is the most elite fraternity in baseball. Only 24 pitchers in the history of Major League Baseball have won 300 games in their careers.
Author Dan Schlossberg chronicles this rarest of breeds. Beginning with Cy Young and Walter Johnson, the only two players to win more than 400 games, the book reviews the careers of all 24
pitchers in the club. Exclusive interviews with the living 300-game winners, including Randy Johnson, Roger Clemens, and Greg Maddux, are at the heart of the book.
Featuring photos and other images from the National Baseball Hall of Fame, The 300 Club - Have We Seen the Last of Baseball's 300-Game Winners? - takes its place among the must-read books in
baseball history!
Since the beginning of major league baseball in 1876, only two dozen pitchers have won 300 games. And because of new philosophies about pitch counts, the role of relief pitchers, shrinking
strike zones, and five-man rotations, there's a good chance that the 300 Club has admitted its last member.
In this fascinating new book - The 300 Club - Have We Seen the Last of Baseball's 300-Game Winners? -author Dan Schlossberg chronicles the most exclusive fraternity in baseball. Beginning with
Cy Young and Walter Johnson, the only two players to win more than 400 games, the book reviews the careers of all 24 pitchers in the club. Exclusive interviews with the living 300-game winners,
including Randy Johnson, Roger Clemens, and Greg Maddux, are at the heart of the book. Johnson was the last pitcher to join the club, winning his 300th during the 2009 baseball season.
The book also investigates the very real possibility that no pitcher will win 300 games again. Changes in relief pitching, salaries, starting rotations, and injuries are conspiring to keep the
300 Club "closed."
Sprinkled with rare photos from the archives of the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York, this book explains how this unusual collection of 24 men managed to win so many games, and
why other standouts, such as Bob Gibson, Don Drysdale, and Sandy Koufax, fell short of the magic number.
Schlossberg, a former sportswriter for The Associated Press, has written 35 books, including The Baseball Catalog, Baseball Gold, Baseball Bits, and autobiographies of Ron Blomberg and Milo
Hamilton.
