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Dodgers Dugout: The 25 greatest Dodgers of all time, No. 5: Don Drysdale

Related Topics: Don Drysdale, Time, Kirk Gibson

Hi, and welcome to another edition of Dodgers Dugout. My name is Houston Mitchell and let's get right to No. 5 in our countdown.

The 25 greatest Dodgers, No. 5: Don Drysdale (22 first-place votes, 35,463 points)

Drysdale was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1984 and had his number (53) retired by the Dodgers that same year.

Drysdale himself talked about his rule for knocking down batters: "My own little rule was two for one. If one of my teammates got knocked down, then I knocked down two on the other team.