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From Don Newcombe in 1956 to Steve Stone and Steve Carlton in 1980, the Cy Young award honors baseball's best pitchers. Here are the winners over the first 25 years.

The Top 20 MLB relief pitchers are led by Trevor Hoffman, Lee Smith, John Franco and The Sandman, Mariano Rivera. This bunch knows how to shut that ninth inning door.

From the Fordham Flash to Stan the Man, the Cardinals have had many great players. Here are the nine best who comprise the unofficial St. Louis Cardinals Hall of Fame.

A renowned manager once said that pitching was 75 percent of baseball. The exact percentage may be debated, but it has consistently separated winners from losers.

Rich Gossage dominated hitters. But a prejudice against relief pitchers and a big change in the way great relievers were used kept him out of the Hall of Fame for years.

Satchel Paige once said that anybody could be a relief pitcher, so long as he had a thick skin, a short memory, and at least one great pitch.

The game has changed dramatically since Steve Carlton pitched 346 1/3 innings and completed 30 games in 1972.

There are various types of fastballs that a pitcher can throw, including the split-finger fastball, the four seam or two-seam fastball, and the cut fastball.

Perhaps the time has finally come for three players who dominated at their respective positions in the 1970s and 1980s: Goose Gossage, Andre Dawson and Jim Rice.