Newcombe
Britishnoun
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Yesavage also broke a Series rookie pitcher strikeout record set 76 years ago by Don Newcombe.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 30, 2025
Newcombe teammate Sandy Koufax is sitting in his Dodger Stadium seat watching this kid twirl, wondering: Why can’t we get guys like this?
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 30, 2025
Stolle was among the Australians - along with Roy Emerson, Rod Laver, Ken Rosewall and John Newcombe - who dominated the men's game late in the amateur era and start of the professional.
From BBC • Mar. 6, 2025
He also was one of three Dodgers pitchers — along with Koufax and Don Newcombe — to simultaneously throw out the first pitch that day.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 16, 2024
Yes, Slummers was devoted to his master, but he made up for it in his detestation of the rest of mankind in general, and of one man in particular—Jack Newcombe.
From Only One Love, or Who Was the Heir by Garvice, Charles
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