ART DITMAR
Born: April 3, 1929 in Winthrop, Massachusetts
Film Credits
1960 1960 World Series (in person), 1958 1958 World Series (in person), 1957 1957 World Series (in person)
JIM COATES
Born: August 4, 1932 in Farnham, Virginia
Film Credits
2007 The Blacksmith and the Carpenter (Performer), 2000 ESPN SportsCentury (in person), 1960 1960 World Series (in person)
BILL SKOWRON
Born: December 18, 1930 in Chicago, Illinois
Died: April 27, 2012 in Arlington Heights, Illinois
Baseball Career:
First Game: April 13, 1954; Final Game:
October 1, 1967
Bat: Right Throw: Right Height: 5' 11" Weight: 195
Awards and Achievements:
Named Minor League Player of the
Year by The Sporting News (1952)
Named first baseman on The Sporting News
Major League All-Star Team (1960)
Film Credits
2009-2011 Prime 9 (in person), 2005 Mantle (in person), 2003 100 Years of the World Series (in person), 2000-2003 ESPN SportsCentury (in person), 1987 New York Yankees The Movie (in person), 1964 The Joey Bishop Show (in person), 1963 Mister Ed (in person), 1963 1963 World Series (in person), 1962 1962 World Series (in person), 1961 1961 World Series (in person), 1960 1960 World Series (in person), 1959-1960 Toast of the Town (in person), 1958 Damn Yankees! (Other), 1958 1958 World Series (in person), 1958 1958 MLB All-Star Game (in person), 1957 The Arthur Murray Party (in person), 1957 1957 World Series (in person), 1957 1957 MLB All-Star Game (in person), 1956 1956 World Series (in person), 1955 1955 World Series (in person)
CLETE BOYER
Born: February 9, 1937 in Cassville, Missouri
Died: June 4, 2007 in Atlanta, Georgia
Baseball Career:
First Game: June 5, 1955; Final Game:
May 23, 1971
Bat: Right Throw: Right Height: 6' 0" Weight: 165
Awards and Achievements:
Won NL Gold Glove as third
baseman (1969)
Film Credits
2003 100 Years of the World Series (in person), 2000 ESPN SportsCentury (in person), 1969 1969 National League Championship Series (in person), 1964 What's My Line (in person), 1964 1964 World Series (in person), 1963 1963 World Series (in person), 1962 1962 World Series (in person), 1961 1961 World Series (in person), 1960 1960 World Series (in person)
HECTOR LOPEZ
Born: July 8, 1929 in Colon, Panama
JOHNNY BLANCHARD
Born: February 26, 1933 in Minneapolis, Minnesota
Died: March 25, 2009 in Robbinsdale, Minnesota
Baseball Career:
Full name John Edwin Blanchard
First Game: September
25, 1955; Final Game: September 27, 1965
Bat: Left Throw: Right Height: 6' 1" Weight: 193
Johnny Blanchard
This article was written by George Rekela and is presented in part, courtesy of the Society for
American Baseball Research
In 1949 Bantam Books published Joe DiMaggio's
autobiography Lucky To Be a Yankee. It could be the title of Johnny
Blanchard's life story as well. "I was so lucky to have been a member of the
best New York Yankee team ever," Blanchard says, referring to the 1961 Bronx
Bombers. "With any other organization, I probably would have made the majors
faster [he was signed by New York in 1951], and I might have had a longer
career, but I wouldn't trade my days with the Yankees for anything. I was
truly blessed in that regard."
With the Yankees, Johnny Blanchard played baseball on a
national stage. The Yankees drew coast-to-coast television coverage and
were World Series participants in all but one of John's years in New York.
Blanchard was the catcher in the historic seventh game of the 1960 World Series,
a contest considered by many to have been the greatest game ever played.
It was a single by Blanchard in the top of the 8th
inning that drove in left-fielder Yogi Berra and gave New York what appeared to
be a commanding 7-4 lead. Pittsburgh, however, roared back with five runs,
topped by Hal Smith's three-run homer off Jim Coates. In the ninth, the
Yankees tied the score, setting up the confrontation between New York reliever
Ralph Terry and leadoff-hitter Bill Mazeroski. As his pitcher warmed up,
Blanchard noticed that Terry was having trouble adjusting to the height of the
mound at Forbes Field. Terry's warm-up throws were coming in too high.
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Film Credits
2009-2011 Prime 9 (Other), 2009 Prime 9 (in person), 2005 Mantle (in person), 2005 ESPN 25: Who's #1 (in person), 2000-2003 ESPN SportsCentury (in person), 1964 1964 World Series (in person), 1963 1963 World Series (in person), 1962 1962 World Series (in person), 1961 1961 World Series (in person), 1960 1960 World Series (in person)
BOBBY RICHARDSON
Born: August 19, 1935 in Sumter, South Carolina
Baseball Career:
First Game: August 5, 1955; Final Game: October 2, 1966
Bat: Right Throw: Right Height: 5' 9" Weight: 170
Awards and Achievements:
Named World Series Most Valuable Player (1960)
Named second baseman on The Sporting News AL All-Star Team (1961 to 1966)
Won AL Gold Glove as second baseman
(1961 to 1965)
Bobby Richardson
This article was written by Len Pasculli and is presented in part, courtesy of the Society for American Baseball Research
Bobby Richardson played second base for the New York
Yankees from 1955 to 1966, a key contributor during one of the Yankees' most
successful stretches in their legendary history. Richardson was by all accounts
a slick, rangy glove man and a steady stick man. He won the Gold Glove Award
five times, he batted over .300 in two different seasons, and he was selected to
the American League All-Star team eight times. (1) And when the October
spotlight was turned on, Richardson excelled. His lifetime regular season
statistics include a .266 batting average, a .299 on-base percentage, and a .335
slugging percentage. In World Series play, however, he batted .305 with a .331
OBP and .405 SLG.
Richardson played in seven World Series, 36 games in all
including a major league record 30 consecutive World Series games, and he holds
several remarkable World Series hitting records as well: he is one of only four
players to have 11 or more hits in two different World Series, he has the most
RBIs in a World Series [12], and the most RBIs in a single World Series game
[6]. His total of 40 World Series hits places him at #13 on the list of Most
World Series Hits in a Career, as of this writing. Richardson is the only second
baseman and the only player from the losing team to win the coveted Sport
Magazine World Series MVP award. (2) Bobby Richardson was inarguably one of the
best second sackers in his day, and a convincing case could be made that he is
the greatest all-time Yankee second baseman after Hall of Famer Tony Lazzeri.
Robert Clinton Richardson, Jr., was born on August 19, 1935, the second child
born to Robert Clinton, Sr. and Willie (nee Owens) Richardson of Sumter, South
Carolina. Older sister Inez was born one year earlier and little sister Willie
Ann was born one year later. His father was part owner and manager of Richardson
Marble and Granite Works and his mother was a homemaker. ("My father was the
type who would sit quietly in the bleachers and watch me play.")
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Film Credits
1994 Forrest Gump (Performer)
WHITEY FORD
Born: October 21, 1928 in New York City, New York
Full name Edward Charles Ford
Born October 21, 1928,
New York, New York
First Game: July 1, 1950; Final Game: May 21, 1967
Bat:
Left Throw: Left Height: 5' 10" Weight: 178
Selected to the Hall of Fame in 1974
Named Major
League Cy Young Award Winner by Baseball Writers' Association of America
(1961)
Named AL Pitcher of the Year by The Sporting News (1955, 1961 and
1963)
Named AL Rookie of the Year by The Sporting News (1950)
Named World
Series Most Valuable Player (1961)
Named pitcher on The Sporting News Major
League All-Star Team (1955 to 1956)
Named pitcher on The Sporting News AL
All-Star Team (1961 and 1963)
Film Credits
2011 Prime 9 (in person), 2010 A Hall for Heroes: The Inaugural Hall of Fame Induction of 1939 (Other), 2008 2008 MLB All-Star Game (in person), 2006 Toots (in person), 2005 Mantle (in person), 2005 1955, Seven Days of Fall (Other), 2003 100 Years of the World Series (in person), 2002 The Tim McCarver Show (in person), 2001 61* (Other), 2001 61* (Performer), 2000-2003 ESPN SportsCentury (in person), 2000 The Boys Behind the Desk (Performer), 2000 The Boys Behind the Desk (in person), 2000 Joe DiMaggio: The Final Chapter (in person), 1995 Once There Was a Ballpark (in person), 1991 When It Was a Game (Other), 1990 The Golden Decade of Baseball (in person), 1989 The Billy Martin Celebrity Roast (in person), 1987 New York Yankees The Movie (in person), 1985 Greats of the Game (in person), 1984 Remington Steele (in person), 1980 It's My Turn (in person), 1977 The Way It Was (in person), 1964 1964 World Series (in person), 1963 Inside Danny Baker (in person), 1963 1963 World Series (in person), 1962 Safe at Home! (in person), 1962 1962 World Series (in person), 1961 1961 World Series (in person), 1960 1960 World Series (in person), 1958-1963 Toast of the Town (in person), 1958 1958 World Series (in person), 1957 The Phil Silvers Show (in person), 1957 The Arthur Murray Party (in person), 1957 1957 World Series (in person), 1956 1956 World Series (in person), 1956 1956 MLB All-Star Game (in person), 1955 The Colgate Comedy Hour (in person), 1955 1955 World Series (in person), 1955 1955 MLB All-Star Game (in person), 1954 1954 MLB All-Star Game (in person), 1953 1953 World Series (in person), 1950 1950 World Series (in person)
TONY KUBEK
Born: October 12, 1935 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Baseball Career:
First Game: April 20, 1957; Final
Game: October 3, 1965
Bat: Left Throw: Right Height: 6' 3" Weight: 190
Awards and Achievements:
Named AL Rookie of the Year
by Baseball Writers' Association of America (1957)
Named AL Rookie Player of
the Year by The Sporting News (1957)
Named shortstop on
The Sporting News AL All-Star Team (1961)
Tony
Kubek
This article was written by Joseph Wancho and is presented in part, courtesy of the Society for American Baseball Research
Tony Kubek was a bit anxious. Not just because he was
the starting left fielder for the New York Yankees, or that he was a rookie who
was participating in his first World Series. But the series had shifted to his
hometown of Milwaukee. For the first time, his family would
see him play in a major-league game. The Braves had moved from
Boston to Milwaukee after the 1952 season, and his family and friends were big
supporters of the home team. For the Series, he was able to
fulfill the ticket requests that came his way from family and friends, and it
seemed to him that everywhere he looked around County Stadium, he saw a familiar
face.
The Series had begun in New York, with the teams
splitting two games before heading west. In the first game in Milwaukee, with
one out in the top of the first inning, Kubek, who was one week shy of his 22nd
birthday, stepped in against Braves starter Bob Buhl. He hit a home run off of
Buhl; the baseball just cleared the fence in right field. As he rounded the
bases, Kubek paused at second and glanced out at right field as if he had doubts
that the ball had gone over. "I guess I just looked because I was surprised," he
said later.
In the fourth inning Kubek singled and scored on a
Mickey Mantle blast. Then in the seventh Kubek went deep again, stroking a
three-run homer off Bob Trowbridge. "I was shaking with excitement as I trotted
around the bases (after his first home run), and to my amazement there was the
most deafening silence I had ever heard," he said. "In the seventh inning, again
I went around the bases. I couldn't hear a sound coming from the crowd of more
than 45,000. It was as if nothing happened. And the stands were
filled with relatives and friends who had known me all my life. Not a peep."
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Film Credits
1991 The Story of America's Classic Ballparks (in person), 1989 MSG Network: New York Yankees Baseball (in person), 1989 1989 American League Championship Series (in person), 1987 1987 American League Championship Series (in person), 1985 1985 American League Championship Series (in person), 1983 1983 American League Championship Series (in person), 1982 1982 World Series (in person), 1981 1981 MLB All-Star Game (in person), 1981 1981 American League Championship Series (in person), 1980 World Series Pre-game Show (in person), 1980 1980 World Series (in person), 1979 1979 National League Championship Series (in person), 1979 1979 MLB All-Star Game (in person), 1978 World Series Pre-game Show (in person), 1977 1977 National League Championship Series (in person), 1977 1977 MLB All-Star Game (in person), 1977 1977 American League Championship Series (in person), 1976-1977 The Way It Was (in person), 1976 1976 World Series (in person), 1975 1975 World Series (in person), 1975 1975 MLB All-Star Game (in person), 1975 1975 American League Championship Series (in person), 1974 1974 World Series (in person), 1974 1974 National League Championship Series (in person), 1974 1974 MLB All-Star Game (in person), 1974 1974 American League Championship Series (in person), 1973 1973 World Series (in person), 1973 1973 National League Championship Series (in person), 1973 1973 MLB All-Star Game (in person), 1973 1973 American League Championship Series (in person), 1972 1972 World Series (in person), 1972 1972 National League Championship Series (in person), 1972 1972 MLB All-Star Game (in person), 1972 1972 American League Championship Series (in person), 1971 1971 World Series (in person), 1971 1971 National League Championship Series (in person), 1971 1971 MLB All-Star Game (in person), 1971 1971 American League Championship Series (in person), 1970 1970 World Series (in person), 1970 1970 National League Championship Series (in person), 1970 1970 MLB All-Star Game (in person), 1970 1970 American League Championship Series (in person), 1969 1969 World Series (in person), 1969 1969 National League Championship Series (in person), 1969 1969 MLB All-Star Game (in person), 1969 1969 American League Championship Series (in person), 1968 1968 World Series (in person), 1966 Game of the Week (in person), 1963 1963 World Series (in person), 1962 1962 World Series (in person), 1961 1961 World Series (in person), 1960 1960 World Series (in person), 1958 1958 World Series (in person), 1957 1957 World Series (in person)
RALPH TERRY
Born: January 9, 1936 in Big Cabin, Oklahoma
Baseball Career:
First Game: August 6, 1956; Final Game:
April 22, 1967
Bat: Right Throw: Right Height: 6' 3" Weight: 195
Awards and Achievements:
Named World Series Most Valuable
Player (1962)
Named pitcher on The Sporting News AL All-Star Team (1962)
Film Credits
1992 The 50 Greatest Home Runs in Baseball History (Other), 1964 1964 World Series (in person), 1963 1963 World Series (in person), 1962 1962 World Series (in person), 1961 1961 World Series (in person), 1960 1960 World Series (in person)
BOB TURLEY
Born: September 19, 1930 in Troy, New York
Baseball Career:
First Game: September 29, 1951; Final
Game: September 21, 1963
Bat: Right Throw: Right Height: 6' 2" Weight: 215
Awards and Achievements:
Named Major League Player of the
Year by The Sporting News (1958)
Named Major League Cy Young Award Winner by
Baseball Writers' Association of America (1958)
Named AL Pitcher of the Year
by The Sporting News (1958)
Named World Series Most Valuable Player (1958)
Named pitcher on The Sporting News Major League All-Star Team
(1958)
Film Credits
2011 Prime 9 (in person), 2005 1955, Seven Days of Fall (Other), 2000 ESPN SportsCentury (in person), 1987 New York Yankees The Movie (in person), 1960 1960 World Series (in person), 1958 Toast of the Town (in person), 1958 1958 World Series (in person), 1958 1958 MLB All-Star Game (in person), 1957 1957 World Series (in person), 1956 1956 World Series (in person), 1955 1955 World Series (in person)
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