Since Major League Baseball integrated in 1947, there have been 15 different pitchers to lead the American League in strikeouts multiple times. The king of the mountain is a divisional foe whose career cocks back to the pre-Mariners American League and finished in the ‘90s. Two Mariners made the list, with a trade for each other wedged in the middle.
In making this quiz I was reminded of how pitching-rich Cleveland has been for the last 75 years, how Floyd Bannister led the American League in strikeouts more times (one) than Félix Hernández (zero), and how infrequently people struck out in the ‘50s and ‘60s.