Bye Bye BULLET BOB

R.I.P. BOB TURLEY

The righthander drew comparisons to Bob Feller when he first came up to the big leagues and won the AL Cy Young Award and World Series MVP with the Yankees in 1958.

23 Murry Dickson...5-10�...157...Right...Right...1916-08-21
28 Art Ditmar...6-02...196...Right...Right...1929-04-03
26 Ryne Duren...6-01...195...Right...Right...1929-02-22
16 Whitey Ford..5-10...181...Left...Left...1928-10-21
55 Bob Grim.....6-01...185...Right...Right...1930-03-08
27 Johnny James.5-10...160...Right...Left...1933-07-23
53 Johnny Kucks.6-03...184...Right...Right...1933-07-27
18 Don Larsen...6-04...227...Right...Right...1929-08-07
24 Duke Maas....5-10...170...Right...Right...1929-01-31
21 Sal Maglie...6-02...180...Right...Right...1917-04-26
55 Zach Monroe..6-00...198...Right...Right...1931-07-08
30 Bobby Shantz.5-06...142...Left...Right...1925-09-26
47 Sturdivant...6-01...186...Right...Left...1930-04-28
21 Virg Trucks..5-11...198...Right...Right...1917-04-26
19 Bob Turley Cy Young Winner + World Series MVP


Turley & Trucks, Duren & Ditmar, Grim Larsen, Maglie, Maas, & Monroe
Shantz & Sturdivant...Kucks was Cool but WHITEY was en route to the Hall of Fame...Johnny, a James Brother, was called Jessie
(by Red Barber) and Murry was a son of a Dick

All these guys did, day in and day out, was throw the damned ball to Yogi Berra
and sometimes to Elston Howard, the Yankees first Black player.

But I hated them all because, in 1958, Willie Mays and his Giants moved across the country. They left New York but I didn't.
I didn't know who to pray to anymore.

So I became an atheist.