Whitey Ford
Whitey Ford
Edward Charles "Whitey" Ford, nicknamed "The Chairman of the Board" is an American former professional baseball pitcher who spent his entire 16-year Major League Baseballcareer with the New York Yankees. He was voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1974...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth21 October 1928
CityQueens, NY
CountryUnited States of America
maybe threw
I never threw the spitter, well maybe once or twice when I really needed to get a guy out real bad.
arm goes later sooner
Sooner or later the arm goes bad. It has to... Sooner or later you have to start pitching in pain.
drink easy games smoke twenty
Hell, if I didn't drink drink or smoke, I'd win twenty games every year. It's easy when you don't drink or smoke or horse around.
amazed hitter power sure throw
You would be amazed how many important outs you can get by working the count down to where the hitter is sure you're going to throw to his weakness, and then throw to his power instead.
shape
The way to make coaches think you're in shape in the spring is to get a tan.
believe life pitch three
Army life was rough. Would you believe it, they actually wanted me to pitch three times a week.
against games great home played playing team winning
They had to play really, really well and they did because we played one of our better games lately. When you're going against a team that's better than you, playing a great game in their home gym, you're probably not going to come out on the winning side.
against came great played ready team wall
They played like a team that had their back against the wall and they came out ready to play. We did not. They played great and we played terrible.
There's no easier pitch to hit than a splitter that doesn't do anything.