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Don Newcombe recalls historic game against Phillies.(Turn Back The Clock ... 1951)
THE GAME IS NEARLY LOST TO HISTORY. MANY WHO SAW THE GAME CONSIDER it to be one of the greatest ever played in baseball history. Without this game, without a pitching performance that can only be described as heroic and a player that one writer said of him "the unconquerable did the impossible", baseball history would pay minimal regard to Bobby Thomson.
Don Newcombe had one of the stellar pitching careers in a Dodger uniform. He won 20 games three times in six seasons. He is the only major league player ever to win the three significant awards, Rookie of the Year in 1949 and the Cy Young and Most Valuable Player in the National League in 1956.
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