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Maddie Lee

Bruce Sutter, Cubs great, Hall of Famer and Cy Young winner, dies at 69

Former Chicago Cubs pitcher Bruce Sutter in March 1979. (AP file photo)

Hall of Fame reliever Bruce Sutter, who began his career with the Cubs, revolutionized the split-finger fastball and won the 1979 NL Cy Young, has died. He was 69.

Sutter was recently diagnosed with cancer and died  in hospice. According to The Baseball Hall of Fame, he died Thursday in Cartersville, Georgia. 

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