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Former Cleveland All-Star Closer Doug Jones dies at age 94

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The joke about Doug Jones’s fastball was that he could throw it at three speeds = slow, slower and slowest. He was an unlikely closer who proved that in a time when pitchers were throwing faster and faster, a pitcher could succeed by going against the grain,

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Cleveland Indians’ Doug Jones, master of the changeup, dead at 64 - cleveland.com
Doug Jones made up for lost time in the minors by saving 302 of his 303 games after he turned 30. He saved 123 of those games in a Cleveland uniform.

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