On This Day: January 19

Happy 69th birthday to Jon Matlack of the New York Mets and Texas Rangers. Matlack, the 1972 NL Rookie of the Year, compiled 1,023 strikeouts and a 3.03 ERA in a seven-year run as one of the “Big Three” pitchers the New York Mets were built around in the 1970s, along with Tom Seaver and Jerry Koosman.