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Posted By: <b>runscott</b><p>It would be easy to hog this subject, but I'll just state the predictable one: <BR><BR>Mordecai Brown and Ed Reulbach

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Posted By: <b>Jaime Leiderman</b><p>Tim Keefe & Mickey Welch

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Posted By: <b>Elliot</b><p>Spahn and Sain and pray for rain.

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Posted By: <b>Dan Mathewson</b><p>Christy & his Fadeaway.<BR><BR>An unbeatable duo, with a MLB record almost a hundred years old, still holding today...<BR><BR><img src="/images/happy.gif" height=14 width=14>

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Posted By: <b>ty_cobb</b><p>I'll go with Eddie Plank and Jack Coombs.<BR>Coombs led the majors in wins in 1910(31) <BR>and 1911(28)and had an amazing 1.30 ERA <BR>in 1910. Inexplicably absent from the T206 set.<BR>

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Posted By: <b>Julie Vognar</b><p> <img src="/images/happy.gif" height=14 width=14>

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Posted By: <b>Goudey Guy</b><p>I probably won't get too many in agreement on this, but I'd take "the Big Train" and any one of the many dogged second bests from any of the Washington teams he was on. If Johnson would have played on average team or better his whole career (like some others had the fortune of doing), he would have blown away a lot more records. I'd even have to say he was the best pitcher ever, with stiff competition from Matty and maybe a couple others. Always been a big Warren Spahn fan too.

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Posted By: <b>jay behrens</b><p>I'll take The Big Train and his fastball over Matty.<BR><BR>Good question. My first thought was Vida Blue and Catfish Hunter with Rollie Fingers coming out of the bullpen<BR><BR>Jay

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Posted By: <b>Glen V</b><p>Satchel Paige against either Matty or the Big Train

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Posted By: <b>runscott</b><p>...not to be too picky!

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Posted By: <b>Glen V</b><p>Sorry, wasn't paying attention. I was just looking at the names and started thinking who I'ld like to see pitch against each other.

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Posted By: <b>Ryan Christoff</b><p>Glen,<BR><BR>If you want Satchel, you can go with Satch & Hilton Smith on the 1941-1947 K.C. Monarchs. Both are HOFers. <BR><BR>For an even better Monarchs HOF duo, I'd pick the 1936 team with Satchel Paige and Bullet Joe Rogan.<BR><BR>-Ryan

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Posted By: <b>stutor</b><p>I'll take Old Hoss Radbourn and Charlie Sweeney (Providence Grays).

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Posted By: <b>runscott</b><p>Some duels that were highly anticipated in their day: Rucker and Mathewson, Johnson and Joe Wood

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Posted By: <b>Andy Baran</b><p>Mathewson & McGinnity<BR>Plank & Bender & Waddell<BR>Babe Ruth & Joe Wood<BR>Cicotte & Williams

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Posted By: <b>Roy Miller</b><p>Walter Johnson<br />Warren Spahn<br />Bob Gibson<br />Nolan Ryan<br />Charlie Hough

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Posted By: <b>jackgoodman</b><p>Not quite vintage, but Whitey Ford and Luis Arroyo in the early 60's.<br />

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Posted By: <b>Chad</b><p>Martin Dihigo and Chet Brewer for the Aguilas Cibaenas. They were the team that faced off against the Trujillo All Stars in the Dominican championship game in 1937, maybe the most legendary game in Negro League/Latin baseball history.<br /><br />--Chad

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Posted By: <b>Scott Forrest</b><p>...proof that I'm not a "newbie" <img src="/images/happy.gif" height=14 width=14><br /><br />On re-reading the original post, there's really nothing obvious about Reulbach - many of you know him only as a guy who has two action shots in the t206 'set' and no portrait.

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Posted By: <b>T206Collector</b><p>Matty and McGinnity. But I do want to comment on Roy's post, which included Nolan Ryan in the same rotation as Walter Johnson, Warren Spahn, Bob Gibson and Charlie Hough. I thought that was funny because there's 8 billion guys I'd rather have rounding out my rotation than Ryan and Charlie Hough is 8,000,000,000th on the list. Ryan follows Hough at 8,000,000,001, followed by Anthony Young and the guy I buy my bagel from every morning.<br />

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Posted By: <b>DJ</b><p>Charlie Hough? <br /><br />How about Ed Whitson? <br /><br />Gotta go with: Mathewson and McGinnity.<br /><br />DJ

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Posted By: <b>warshawlaw</b><p>Koufax and Drysdale<br />Reynolds and Raschi<br />Johnson and Schilling

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Posted By: <b>scott ingold</b><p>Now there's a name i don't expect mixed in with the greats.

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Posted By: <b>Kevin Cummings</b><p>Early Wynn and Bob Lemon were a pretty good pairing for the Cleveland Indians from 1949 through 1957.

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Posted By: <b>Matt Goebel</b><p>I've always though it was Smokey Joe Williams and Cannonball Redding. Both young and scary.

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Posted By: <b>jay behrens</b><p>Certainly not the greatest combo, Ryan and Tanana, but easily the greatest combo for pure heat.<br /><br />Jay<br><br>My place is full of valuable, worthless junk.

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Posted By: <b>Chad</b><p>They were pretty fast, too.<br /><br />--Chad

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Posted By: <b>Ted Zanidakis</b><p>1904 Highlanders (Double Jacks)<br /><br />Jack Chesbro....41 - 12 and Jack Powell....23 - 9<br /><br />Check-me-out on this; but, no two pitchers ever won<br />more games between them in a season than these two<br />guys.<br /><br />Totals = 65 won and 21 lost..which = .765 %

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Posted By: <b>T206Collector</b><p>Chesbro had the wild pitch that blew the pennant for the Yankees that year.

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Posted By: <b>Ted Zanidakis</b><p>T206<br /><br />In the 1st game of the final day in 1904 (double header<br />playoff) with the Boston Pilgrims.....Chesbro not only<br />cost the Highlanders the Pennant with his "wild pitch",<br />but he committed the "cardinal sin" by not pitching a<br />"waste pitch" to Freddy Parent on an 0 - 2 count. So,<br />it was worst than you noted.<br /><br />But, the worst event that followed that season was that<br />the NY Giants refused to play Boston in the World Series.<br />McGraw and Brush (of the Giants) said that Boston was not<br />worthy of playing and the Giants just declared themselves<br />the Champions.<br /><br />All this because "Happy Jack" Chesbro blew the game for NY.<br /><br />And, 100 years later Boston got its revenge on NY.

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Posted By: <b>Scott Forrest</b><p>I'd take Ryan and Sam McDowell. It would have been real interesting to have see "Sudden Sam" pitching for a contender in his prime.

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Posted By: <b>Paul Stratton</b><p>Ed Cicotte and Smokey Joe Wood<br /><br />Maybe not the greatest, but certainly two of the most collected pitchers.

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Posted By: <b>Clinton Hromek</b><p>Babe Ruth and Carl Mays were pretty good in 1917.

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Posted By: <b>robert a</b><p>To give you an idea of how good the Cubs were in those years.<br /><br />Reulbach and 3 Finger Brown weren't even the best pitching duo on the team in the late part of the first decade of the 20th century.<br /><br />Orval Overall and Brown are pretty impressive. Add reulbach in there and it's just rediculous.<br /><br />Matty and Marquard are a nice duo too.<br />

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Posted By: <b>Darren J Duet</b><p><img src="http://www.network54.com/Realm/tmp/1128737866.JPG">

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Posted By: <b>Andrew Parks</b><p>How about Coombs and Plank? Followed by Plank and Bender.

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Posted By: <b>John Spencer</b><p>Not exactly vintage either but Robin Roberts and Curt Simmons, before he cut his toe off with a lawnmower, were a solic duo for the Phillies.

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Posted By: <b>Anson</b><p>Certainly not vintage, but Randy Johnson and Curt Schilling wern't half bad. You could also throw Maddux and Glavine in there.<br /><br />How about Hooks Wiltse with Mathewson? Eddie Plank and Chief Bender!

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Posted By: <b>Darren J Duet</b><p>any two pitchers for the '27 Yankees<br /><br />1968 Detroit Denny Mclain and Mickey Lolich<br />1978 Yankees Ron Guidry and Ed Figueroa<br />1931 Athletics Lefty Grove and George Earnshaw<br />1969 Mets Tom Seaver and Jerry Koosman<br />1904 Highlanders Jack Chesbro and Jack Powell<br />1908 White Sox Ed Walsh and Doc White<br />1916 Philadelphia Pete Alexander and Eppa Rixey<br />1904 Pigrims Cy Young and Bill Dineen<br />1979 Astros J.R. Richard and Joe Niekro<br />1985 Mets Dwight Gooden and Ron Darling<br />1916/17 Red Sox Babe Ruth and Dutch Leonard<br />1934 Yankees Lefty Gomez and Red Ruffing<br /><br />

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Posted By: <b>john/z28jd</b><p>Al Spalding and Harry Wright,the only 2 pitchers for the 1871-1874 Boston Red Stockings went a combined 154-52....at least if you asked Harry Wright,thats how he would say it happened <img src="/images/happy.gif" height=14 width=14>