Good things come for those who
wait….a long yet uneven career but made good by perseverance …in and out of different levels
of minors for 10 seasons with MLB trials…even in minors rarely stayed with one
team…. doesn’t win first game until 1970
nine seasons after his MLB debut in 1962….salvation to regular rotation
comes in the form help wanted sign posted by San Diego….Norman posts a lopsided
3-12 record but his 3.34 shows impressive pitching skills and bad luck via poor run
support (the Padres run production dropped by nearly a total of 200 runs from previous season)….able to win more(9) in 1972 and establishes himself as a workhorse who
can go deep into games possibly (6 times) shutting out the competition as his only way to win …. 1973 starts rough with 1-7 mark…traded/sold to Reds where he
is able to stable the season with an overall 13-13 slate….what follows is 6 years of double
figure wins contributing to perennial Red pennant drives….consistent with
little variability in ERA with 11-14 wins….1980 signed as a free by Montreal
where spends his last year mostly in the bullpen in a season that confrontational
and anticlimactic…lesson learned; you win when on a good team.
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