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Split-Fingered Fastball Gaining Fame
The split fingered fastball reshapes baseball, with Mike Scott's use leading to a 1986 Cy Young and a Giants teaching ban. Roger Craig trained Scott in a week. teams and players nationwide adopt the pitch, while critics call it forkball or misname it as a split fingered fastball.
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Roger Craig
San Francisco Giants
Mike Schmidt
Keith Hernandez
Schmidt
Mike Scott
Scott
Houston Astros
Craig
Giants
al Rosen
San Francisco
Detroit
Stella
New York Mets
Houston
Mets
Hernandez
Bruce Sutter
Sutter
Fred Martin
Enos Cabell
Cabell
Detroit Tigers
Tiger
Rosen
Jack Morris
The
Tigers
Morris
Will Clark
Los Angeles
Dodgers
Ron Darling
Logan Easley
Pittsburgh
Danny Cox
St. Louis
Neal Heaton
Montreal
Scott Wegman
Milwaukee
Danny Darwin
Juan Berenguer
Minnesota
Steve Carlton
Cleveland Indians