LUIS "YO-YO" ARROYO - AUTOGRAPHED SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH - HFSID 286309
Sale Price $165.00
Reg. $200.00
LUIS ARROYO
Signed 8x10 photo, shown in Yankee uniform bending down ready to catch a ball
Photograph signed: "Luis Arroyo". B/w, 8x10 Arroyo (1927-2016) had only one outstanding
Major League season, but that season was a legendary one. After a competent debut in 1955 as
a St. Louis Cardinals starter, Arroyo spent five seasons in the Pirate and Yankee bullpens before
coming into his own in the great Yankee season of 1961. Throwing his screwball as the
Yankees bullpen ace that season, he won 15 games while losing only five, with an earned
run average of 2.19 (1½ runs per game below the league average). He led the American
League that year in games pitched, games finished (54), and games saved (29), a very high
number in an era when the concept of the "closer" was only starting to emerge). He made his
second All-Star team that year, and won another game in the World Series. The 1961 Yankees,
considered one of the greatest teams of all time, won 109 games and a World Championship,
as sluggers Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris chased Ruth's season home run record. Arroyo
was a key ingredient of that team. Regrettably, Arroyo injured his arm the next spring and
spent only two more seasons in the Majors. He was the first Puerto Rican to play for the
Yankees. Fine condition.
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