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Greg Maddux

1966 - Today

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Gregory Alan Maddux (born April 14, 1966), also known as "Mad Dog" and "the Professor," is an American former professional baseball pitcher who played 23 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB), primarily with the Atlanta Braves and Chicago Cubs. He won the 1995 World Series with the Braves over the Cleveland Indians. Maddux was the first pitcher in MLB history to win the Cy Young Award four consecutive years (1992–1995), matched by only one other pitcher, Randy Johnson. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Greg Maddux has received more than 3,592,408 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Greg Maddux is the 36th most popular baseball player (up from 39th in 2019), the 9,906th most popular biography from United States (up from 10,738th in 2019) and the 30th most popular American Baseball Player.

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  • 41.49

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.46

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.61

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among BASEBALL PLAYERS

Among baseball players, Greg Maddux ranks 36 out of 74. Before him are Carl Yastrzemski, Tom Seaver, Mariano Rivera, Bob Gibson, Sammy Sosa, and Manny Ramirez. After him are Derek Jeter, Hank Greenberg, Ernie Banks, Daisuke Matsuzaka, Pedro Martínez, and Ken Griffey Jr..

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1966, Greg Maddux ranks 333. Before him are Luca Marchegiani, Jeff Healey, Marco Antônio da Silva, Timur Kulibayev, Johan Renck, and Andrei Chesnokov. After him are Randy Barnes, Andrea Berg, Tabea Zimmermann, Kyōko Koizumi, Alastair Reynolds, and Maria Canals-Barrera.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Greg Maddux ranks 9,906 out of 18,182. Before him are Kal Penn (1977), Logan Marshall-Green (1976), Jamie Chung (1983), Aubrey Plaza (1984), Terry Kiser (1939), and Saweetie (1993). After him are James Moody (1925), Edmund Breese (1871), Tom Florie (1897), Vern Mikkelsen (1928), Summer Phoenix (1978), and Randy Barnes (1966).

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Among BASEBALL PLAYERS In United States

Among baseball players born in United States, Greg Maddux ranks 30. Before him are Frank Robinson (1935), Rogers Hornsby (1896), Mark McGwire (1963), Carl Yastrzemski (1939), Tom Seaver (1944), and Bob Gibson (1935). After him are Derek Jeter (1974), Hank Greenberg (1911), Ernie Banks (1931), Ken Griffey Jr. (1969), Cal Ripken Jr. (1960), and Curt Schilling (1966).

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