Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. John Eugene (Jack) Billingham is a former starting pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for the Los Angeles Dodgers, Houston Astros, Cincinnati Reds, Detroit Tigers and Boston Red Sox. Nicknamed "Cactus Jack," the 6-foot-4 hurler won at least 10 games for 10 consecutive seasons, and he helped lead Cincinnati''s legendary "Big Red Machine" to back-to-back World Series titles in 1975 and 1976. He batted and threw right-handed. Billingham is the cousin of Christy Mathewson. Billingham proved to be one of baseball''s greatest World Series pitchers