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Article: The Philadelphia Inquirer Jim Salisbury column: a night to honor mound's old men.(Column)
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- June 28, 2007
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Byline: Jim Salisbury
Jun. 28--A record was matched last night in major-league baseball, and we're not talking about the 9,000-foot home run that Ryan Howard hit against the Cincinnati Reds.
Six of the 30 starting pitchers who took to the mounds of America were in their 40s.
Boys of summer? Nah, these were the old men of summer. (And to think, Viagra ended its five-year run as an MLB sponsor this season. Tough timing.)
Jamie Moyer (44), Roger Clemens (44), Greg Maddux (41), Tom Glavine (41), John Smoltz (40) and Woody Williams (40) got the call for their respective teams. A seventh fortysomething pitcher was supposed to start, but ...