By Ken Rappoport
Who're the best pitchers within the historical past of baseball? who're the best pitchers pitching this day? What makes a glass nice? From the heroes of the day prior to this like Cy younger to fashionable superstars like Mariano Rivera, writer Ken Rappoport seems at ten of the best ballplayers (Grover Cleveland Alexander, Lefty Grove, Walter Johnson, Sandy Koufax, Christy Mathewson, Satchel Paige, Mariano Rivera, Nolan Ryan, Warren Spahn, Cy younger) to ever stand atop a major-league pitcher's mound.
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