Retirement - is a meaningless word

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Yeah over the last 3 years of his career he dealt with gruesome pain everytime he pitched. When Koufax set what was then a Major League record 382 strikeouts, his left arm would swell to the size of his leg. Prior to each start, Koufax "treated" his arm with with an ointment so hot, it seared his skin. After each game he dipped his permanently bowed left arm into a tub of freezing ice-water.

He was unfortunatly forced into retirement after one of his greatest seasons, so yeah he didn't want to retire but I meant he did so at the peak of his career, if he had hit it yet.

Brown & Sanders are better examples but even they both retired waaaaaaaaaaay to soon, while on such streaks. Sanders is the worst because atleast Brown at the time had already achieved the all time rushing record. Sanders was more like a baseball player coming into the league and in a little over a decade hitting 700 home runs and then retiring.