By early May and June of 1968, the nation's eyes were turned to pitcher Don Drysdale of the Los Angeles Dodgers, who was shutting out opposing teams, one after another.
Interesting you bring that up. That very same year, the OTHER (and arguably, slightly better) intimidator, Bob Gibson, was having the greatest pitching season I have ever witnessed. Throughout June and July, in 99 IP, he gave up exactly 2 runs -- one on a passed ball, the other on a barely-fair-ball bloop double. W/o those two weird moments, he had TEN shutouts. He went into August with an ERA under 1.0. Boy, those two righties were on fire that year. I think they lowered the mound because of it.