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MLB Dodgers pitching great Don Sutton dies at 75

Pitcher Don Sutton, at a press conference for his induction into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1998, holds up three baseballs showing the number of games (324) he won in his 23-year major league baseball career

LOS ANGELES: Don Sutton, the Hall of Fame pitcher whose No. 20 was retired by the Los Angeles Dodgers, has died at the age of 75, his son said Tuesday on Twitter.

Daron Sutton said his father “passed away in his sleep” on Monday night.

“He worked as hard as anyone I’ve ever known,” Daron Sutton wrote on a post that included photos of himself with his father and his father with Dodgers teammates, “and he treated those he encountered with great respect . . . and he took me to work a lot. For all these things, I am very grateful. Rest In Peace.”

Sutton, a four-time All-Star, won 324 games,…

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