Robert Gibson

(1935- ) born in Omaha. Professional baseball player, pitching coach, businessman, completed a 17-year career as a pitcher with record of 251 wins and 174 losses and over 3,000 strikeouts, compiled in 1968 an 1.12 earned-run-average, the lowest ever in the major leagues for at least 300 innings pitched; recipient of two Cy Young Awards, and inducted into National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1981. Consult Sunday /Omaha/ World Herald, February 6, 1994, pp. A-1, A-13 and Biographical Dictionary of American Sports: Baseball, Vol 2 (Greenwood Press, 2000) 552-553 and Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives: Sports Figures, Vol 1 (2002) 327-330 and Omaha Sunday World Herald, September 4, 2005, pp. Y-1, Y-4.

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