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Old 12-01-2012, 02:05 AM   #100
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Class of 1999, Pitcher: Mungo

There is only one Mungo, and his name is Van (nice start to a name, Van).

Van Mungo is another sub .500 pitcher to enter the HOF, but I think the selection committee got this call correct.

Van Mungo was 218-232 for his career. However, in the last 3 years of his career he went 10-40, including a 1-17 penultimate 1946 campaign. He was not the same pitcher his final years. But he still took the ball and gave it his best effort without a care for his career W/L or percentage stats.

In his first 10 years he established something close to a Koufax standard.

Twice he won the CYA. He twice threw a no hitter (one of them a perfect game).

Twice he appeared in the WS and twice won titles.

In 1938 he was given the ball twice in the Fall Classic. Twice he won, and he threw a complete game, you guessed it, twice.

Of course he was drafted 2nd, over all....By the Boston Braves in 1929.

He won WS Championships in 1932, with HOF team mates Ed Dugan, John McGraw, and Jimmy Wynn, and in 1938 with Warren Cromartie and Mack Jones joining Dugan, McGraw and Wynn.

He led the league in Ks each season from 1935-1938. In 1932 he won the CYA with a 25-8 record and an OOTP ERA of 2.11 which was good for a 180 npa ERA+.

Mungo's career ERA was 3.85, an npa ERA+ of 111. This total includes ERA+ seasons of 56 and of 43 with over 100 IP in each.

Van Mungo enters by virtue of his Black Ink number being above the Hall average.

Black Ink: 50 (12)
Gray Ink: 145 (112)
HOFm: 91 (31)
HOFs: 23 (12)

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