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Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth
Yeah, not like Kid Nichols is ever in the mix of greatest pitcher discussions, but he started the same year as Cy and I believe had more wins in the 1890s.
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One of the great mysteries, for sure. Nichols was outstanding by all accounts, and even Cy himself conceded Nichols was superior to him in their early years.
See for yourself:
https://stathead.com/baseball/player...to=1899&type=p
If you haven’t read Joe Posnanski’s The Baseball 100, I highly highly recommend it. He addresses this very issue in his profile of Nichols (#82, pages 115-118).
FWIW, Posnanski clarifies that a number assigned to each player is not ordinal, so he is not suggesting that Nichols is merely the 82nd greatest player.