Dennis Eckersley On Closing & The Cardinals

Right-handed pitcher Dennis Eckersley won 197 games, saved 390 more and forever has a plaque in Cooperstown. Most of those saves were accumulated during his years as closer for the famed Oakland A’s led by Tony La Russa and Dave Duncan, with whom he was employed from 1987 through 1995. When La Russa and Duncan moved to St. Louis in 1996, so did Eck, serving as the Cardinals’ ninth-inning man for two seasons.

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