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Roger Craig, baseball coach who taught split-fingered fastball, has died

Por: Los Angeles Times Sports June 05, 2023

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Roger Craig, a well-traveled major league baseball player and coach who became a pitching guru in the 1980s teaching the merits of the split-fingered fastball, has died. The San Francisco Giants announced Craig's death Sunday. He was 93. Craig was the pitching coach of a dominating Detroit Tigers team that won the World Series in 1984, then continued teaching the split-finger as manager of the San Francisco Giants, who won a division title... + full article



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