Major League Baseball legend Bob Gibson is battling a disease.
According to report on Monday that Gibson has pancreatic cancer and is taking medication in Nebraska.
Born in 1935, Gibson joined the St. Louis Cardinals in 1959 and played in 528 games in his career, earning 251 wins, 174 losses and six saves,a mean earned run average of 2.91.
He has won 20 wins in his career five times 1965, 1966, 1968, 1969, and 1970, and won the National League MVP in 1968 and the National League Cy Young Award in 1968 and 1970.
Gibson, who made a big splash in Major League Baseball history, was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1981.
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