Roger Craig, coach who taught split-fingered fastball and pitched for Dodgers, dies at 93
UCLA defensive coordinator Bill McGovern died Tuesday at his Southern California home after a lengthy fight with an undisclosed form of cancer.It wasn’t original. In the 1970s, Bruce Sutter learned the pitch from a minor league coach and became one of baseball’s best relievers. Craig said a former Brooklyn Dodger teammate, Clem Labine, threw a split-finger in the 1950s that was called “a dry spitter.
When some pitchers throwing split-finger fastballs later came down with arm trouble, Craig defended what role the pitch might have played in any injuries. “A lot of pitching coaches try to teach you what worked for them,” Dan Petry, who pitched for Craig in Detroit, told Sports Illustrated in 1984. “Roger teaches what’s best for you, possibly because he didn’t have that great of a career.”
His career record was only 74-98 but more than 40 of his defeats came in two seasons with the expansion Mets. He was 10-24 in the Mets’ first season in 1962 and 5-22 in 1963, losing 18 in a row. Former Dodgers pitcher Roger Craig waves as he rides in a cart before a game between the Dodgers and Colorado Rockies at Dodger Stadium in May 2015.
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