Bert Blyleven
Bert Blyleven
Bert Blylevenis a former Major League Baseball pitcher who played from 1970 to 1992, and was best known for his curveball. Blyleven was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2011. He is currently the color commentator for the Minnesota Twins on Fox Sports North...
NationalityDutch
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth6 April 1951
CityZeist, Netherlands
hurt kids years
The 16 years have gone so fast. I came to Minnesota as a 19-year-old kid. Marv Grissom was the pitching coach, an old-timer who taught me quite a bit. Marv didn't like the way I stepped toward the plate. I had a tendency to throw across my body. So, he took me off to the side at Met Stadium and put a chair on the mound. If I threw across my body, I would step on the chair. Marv was trying to hurt me. I fooled him. I started stepping the right way.
I knew that I wasn't a first-ballot Hall-of-Fame inductee.