Quote Originally Posted by RealityCheck View Post
Dead-ball era, plus the era when most full-time starting pitchers threw close to or over 300 innings. Johnson pitched in 34 games in 1917 with just 23 starts and still worked 192 innings.
And then there was Iron Man ____ who won sixty something games and wasn't the starting pitcher at the first of the season. Also had incredibly low era. Looked funny until I read that pitchers could get a running start in his day.