Ask Hal McCoy: Steve Carlton Didn't Get Everybody's Vote In 1982

Q Have you ever looked back on a vote that you cast for the national awards and wish you had it back to change to somebody else? — Alan, Sugarcreek Twp.

A Oh, yes. In 1982 I was the only voter not to give Philadelphia’s Steve Carlton a first-place Cy Young vote when he was 23-11. I voted for LA’s Jerry Reuss, who was 18-11 and beat the Reds four times that year. Later, when Reuss pitched for the Reds, I told him that I was the only guy to vote him No. 1 in the ’82 balloting and he said, “Oh, so you were the idiot.”

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