MLB All-Star Game had it all. Flamethrowing aces lit up the radar gun like never before. Big-time sluggers launched homers.

Drysdale pitched in 518 major league games and hit 154 batters. That ranks 20th all time. Of the 19 pitchers ahead of him, only 12 pitched exclusively in the 20th or 21st centuries.

This day in Los Angeles Dodgers history saw Don Sutton pass Don Drysdale for most wins in franchise history. Sutton moved into first place by going eight innings to earn a win as the Dodgers ...

He wasn’t a real threat to Don Drysdale. But one day in 1964, Amalfitano stepped into the box at Wrigley Field and smacked a long line drive off Drysdale. “I thought, ...

In his career, Drysdale appeared in 518 major league games and hit 154 batters with pitches, 20th all-time, but no pitcher is more synonymous with the knockdown.

Editor’s note: The following excerpt from the book “Don Drysdale: Up and In: The Life of a Dodgers Legend,” by former Orange County Register columnist Mark Whicker, is reprinted with the permission of ...