10 Unbreakable St. Louis Cardinals Pitching Records

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6. Dizzy Dean’s 30-Win Season

Credit: Lance Iversen-USA TODAY Sports

If you win 20 games these days, you’re automatically qualified for Cy Young Award consideration. But when the Hall-of-Famer won 30 back in 1934, a 20-game winner was much more common. A 30-game winner? Not so much. And that’s partly why Dean won the National League MVP award that season.

The fact that Dean went on to win just 150 games in his career is a reminder of what a bummer the 1937 All-Star Game was. And how great the righ-hander was in his prime. Dean took a liner off his toe and changed his delivery to compensate for the pain. He was never the same again. Forget about winning 30 games in a season. He never made more than 19 starts in a season until he retired in 1941 (Sorry, his 1947 season with the Browns doesn’t count …).