The best shortened-season performances including Jerry Rice in 1987

The NBA and NHL will be lucky to get in a full playoff if they even return. Major League Baseball certainly won’t play a full 162-game schedule. And who knows about the NFL? But while coronavirus is wreaking havoc on the calendars of every sports …

Eddie Ciccotte

Ciccotte was a right-handed knuckleballer who would later be banned for baseball for his part in the 1919 Black Sox scandal. But he put in work during the 1919 regular season, going 29-7 with a 1.82 ERA and only 110 strikeouts. He made 35 starts (30 of them complete games) and pitched 306.2 innings as the White Sox won their final pennant until 1959.