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Catfish Hunter

Baseball is an outdoor sport in which a pitcher pitches a hard, fist sized ball to the hitting area of a batter. The batter hits the hard ball with a tapered, smooth, cylindrical bat made up of wood or metal. The batsman scores by running counter-clockwise within the four markers called the bases arranged at the corners of a diamond. Baseball is sometimes called hardball to differentiate it from similar games such as softball.

Catfish Hunter was a well known baseball player. Catfish was elected to the Hall of Fame in 1987. His full name was James Augustus Hunter and nickname was Catfish. Catfish Hunter was born on April 8th, 1946, in Hertford, North Carolina. His height was is 6 foot and weight is 195 pounds. He was 19 years old when he broke into the big leagues on May 13th, 1965, with the Kansas City Athletics which was his first game and last game played by him was on 17th September 1979.

In his playing career he played 3448 game and earns 3.26 Earned Run Average, ERA. He was All-Star from 1966 to 67, 70, and from 1972 to 76. In 1970, his first season over .500, he tied for the American League, AL lead with 40 starts. He then won 21 games each season from 1971 to 1973. In 1974 he won the Cy Young Award. He helped the Yankees to three straight pennants from 1976 to 78 in spite of declining effectiveness due to arm strain and diabetes. After going 2 to 9 in 1979, he retired at age 33.

Catfish Hunter with all his dedication and devotion in his play has achieved many hallmarks in his overall baseball-playing career. He had the ability of defeating the opponent easily by giving some extra hard work and efforts.

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