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.

No. 4: Don Drysdale (202 first-place votes, 65,432 points) Naming the most famous number in Dodgers history is easy: Jackie Robinson’s 42. Also not debatable is the most famous letter.

LOS ANGELES (CBSNewYork/AP) — Kelly Drysdale remembers seeing her dad's Cy Young Award in her house growing up. Now she's heartbroken that Don Drysdale's widow is selling memorabilia from his ...

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 ...