There was a time when the baseball world was transfixed on the flamethrowing ability of Astros hurler, J.R. Richard, and why not? He threw faster than anybody else, he fanned piles of batters and he was a young black pitcher in a time when there were not that many. Richard was only an All-Star once, but he is a two-time strikeouts champion, a two-time leader in FIP and finished in the top ten in Cy Young voting three times.
A stroke took Richard out of baseball but Houston fans remember him fondly, as they should! Overall, he would go 107-71 with 1,493 Strikeouts. In 2019, the Astros inducted Richard into their Hall of Fame in their first class.
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