Steve Carlton

Steve Carlton is honestly one of those pitchers who makes you rethink what dominance even looks like. Four Cy Young Awards — four — and the man spent a chunk of that career on genuinely bad Phillies teams in the early '70s, which makes his 1972 season (27 wins on a club that won only 59 total) one of the most jaw-dropping individual performances in baseball history. When he finally got a real supporting cast, he delivered a World Series ring in 1980. His slider was practically a cheat code, the kind of pitch hitters knew was coming and still couldn't touch. The fact that he also won a Gold Glove tells you he wasn't just a strikeout machine — he actually competed on all fronts. His Hall of Fame induction in 1994, first ballot, felt less like a ceremony and more like a long-overdue formality.

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Name (English)

Steve Carlton

Name (Japanese)

スティーブ・カールトン

Reading

すてぃーぶ・かーるとん

Born

December 22, 1944 (age 81)

Origin

Miami, Florida, United States

Occupation

baseball player

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Capricorn / Monkey

High school

North Miami High School

Awards & achievements

• Rawlings Gold Glove Award

• Official sitehttps://www.stevecarlton.com
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve%20Carlton
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B9%E3%83%86%E3%82%A3%E3%83%BC%E3%83%96%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AB%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB%E3%83%88%E3%83%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1287709

Tags

• Florida
• baseball player

Last updated

October 18, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.