Until the 1970s, we had such luminaries as Gibson, Newcombe, Vida Blue, J.R. Richard, Dwight Gooden, Fergie Jenkins, Blue Moon Odom. There are, in fact, just 13 black pitchers to win 20 games in a season (the "Black Aces"), with Dontrelle Willis the most recent inductee in 2005, almost twenty years after Dave Stewart joined the club in 1987 (two years after Gooden). These three, plus one-season wonder Mike Norris in 1980, are the only guys to join this club in the past thirty years.
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