Greg Maddux, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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American baseball player
Date of Birth: 14-Apr-1966
Place of Birth: San Angelo, Texas, United States
Profession: baseball player
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Aries 
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About Greg Maddux
- Gregory Alan Maddux (born April 14, 1966) is an American college baseball coach and former Major League Baseball (MLB) pitcher.
- He is the pitching coach at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
- Maddux is best known for his accomplishments while playing for the Atlanta Braves and the Chicago Cubs.
- With the Braves, he won the 1995 World Series over the Cleveland Indians.
- The first to achieve a number of feats and records, he was the first pitcher in major league history to win the Cy Young Award for four consecutive years (1992–1995), matched by only one other pitcher, Randy Johnson.
- During those four seasons, Maddux had a 75–29 record with a 1.98 earned run average (ERA), while allowing less than one baserunner per inning.Maddux is the only pitcher in MLB history to win at least 15 games for 17 straight seasons.
- In addition, he holds the record for most Gold Gloves with 18.
- A superb control pitcher, Maddux won more games during the 1990s than any other pitcher and is 8th on the all-time career wins list with 355.
- Since the start of the post-1920 live-ball era, only Warren Spahn (363) recorded more career wins than Maddux.
- He is one of only 10 pitchers ever to achieve both 300 wins and 3,000 strikeouts, and is the only pitcher to record more than 300 wins, more than 3,000 strikeouts, and fewer than 1,000 walks.Since his retirement as a player, Maddux has also served as a special assistant to the general manager for both the Cubs and Texas Rangers.
- On January 8, 2014, he was voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame, in his first year of eligibility, receiving 97.2 percent of the votes.
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