Mathewson, Christy (1880-1925), was one of baseball’s greatest right-handed pitchers. He won 373 games, 372 of them with the New York Giants from 1900 to 1916. Mathewson became the first pitcher in the 1900’s to win 30 games a season three years in a row. He also pitched 20 or more victories for 12 consecutive seasons.
Christopher Mathewson was born in Factoryville, Pennsylvania. He became famous for developing a reverse curve pitch that was called a fadeaway. Today the pitch is known as a screwball. Mathewson pitched three shutouts in the 1905 World Series. In 1908, he won 37 games. Mathewson led the league in strikeouts for five seasons–1903, 1904, 1905, 1907, and 1908. He became one of the first five players elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1936.
