Educating Twitter: Phil Niekro's 1978 Season

Earlier this week, I got into an interesting exchange with some Yankee fans. It all began pretty innocently, with what I think was a knowingly hyperbolic question about Ron Guidry:

Now, BronxZooNYY is a fun account, and I encourage you to follow them. They’re fun because they don’t take themselves too seriously, and I suspect they knew that the answer to…