(Rob Kozloff / Associated Press)
Roger Craig, a well-traveled major league baseball player and coach who became a pitching guru in the 1980s teaching the merits of the split-fingered fastball, has died.The San Francisco Giants announced Craig's death Sunday.He was 93.He was the pitching coach of a dominating Detroit Tigers team that won the World Series in 1984, then continued teaching the split-finger as manager of the San Francisco Giants, who won a division title in 1987 and reached the World Series in 1989.
Roger Craig, a well-traveled major league baseball player and coach who became a pitching guru in the 1980s teaching the merits of the split-fingered fastball, has died.The San Francisco Giants announced Craig's death Sunday.He was 93.He was the pitching coach of a dominating Detroit Tigers team that won the World Series in 1984, then continued teaching the split-finger as manager of the San Francisco Giants, who won a division title in 1987 and reached the World Series in 1989.
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