Bob turley appeared in 32 major league games during the 1957 regular season. Dell sports baseball 1959 new yorker yankees bob turley the 1959 forecast national league american league 1958 history baseball bob markel on. Stats awards fabulous feats famous firsts hall of fame hitting charts legendary lists pitching charts record books rules scoring. Bob turley was a rich businessman who once won a cy young award pitching for the yankees. The date box field has a link to the box score from the game being described. Other stats awards 5 jobs 1 pitching logs pitching splits extended stats transactions feats 16 leaderboards 50 the bob turley page is available to be sponsored. In addition, other apparent facts about the photographer and location do not match up with musials whereabouts during this time. The leading destination for sports card and collectible enthusiasts. Bob turley trades and transactions by baseball almanac. It is the oldest and most prestigious award given to the single player in mlb who had the most outstanding season.
You can leave it on top of the porcelain, pick it up, read it backwards, and still get an enormous charge out of it. Bob turley appeared in 34 major league games during the 1960 regular season. The sporting news established in 1936 the player of the year award. The bob turley trades and transactions seen below include all known instances where bob turley has been involved in a trade or transaction of any type as it relates to baseball. He committed to attend brigham young university byu on a scholarship to play college baseball for the byu cougars baseball team. Turley born in 1930, signed out of high school and toiled away in the browns minor league organization from 1948 to 1951. Bob turley 1957 game by game batting logs baseball almanac. The trade was announced on november 18th, 1954, with larsen and future 20game winner bob turley highlighting the return package for the yanks. Bob turley 1960 game by game batting logs baseball almanac.
Bob turley, a cy young awardwinning righthanded pitcher whose blazing fastball bored in on baffled hitters like a dissolving aspirin and lifted the yankees to. Bob turley every game played with complete stats, links to box scores and automated row summing for 1962. The chart below is a comprehensive analysis of the games turley appeared in, specifically relating to his 1960 hitting statistics. Far more than a book about baseball, it is a deeply felt story of triumph and failure, dreams and disappointments. He bob turley was no herkyjerky tangle of arms and legs like dizzy dean or clevelands fireballing bob feller, with whose fastball his was sometimes compared. Robert anton grim march 8, 1930 october 23, 1996 was a pitcher in major league baseball he was born in new york, new york he was signed as an amateur free agent by the new york yankees in 1948. Dell sports baseball 1959 new yorker yankees bob turley. Powered by official averages and stats with exclusive starto ratings. The latest bob turley stats, video highlights, news and more from milb. He was traded to the new york yankees, with whom he won the cy young award in 1958. The family later moved to long beach, california, where lemon attended wilson classical high school and played shortstop on the schools baseball team.
Until the award was replaced by two separate ones in 20, it was given annually to one pitcher each in the american league and national league. The bob turley world series stats seen below include his world series yearbyyear hitting stats, world series fielding stats, and world series pitching stats where applicable. He played in major league baseball mlb as a pitcher from 1951 through 1963. With that victory, the yankees became only the second team in major league baseball history to come back from a 31 deficit to win a bestofseven world series. R, 4x h9 leader, born in il 1930, died 20, bullet bob. Sponsor this page attach your namecompany to the bob turley page and 1 help support the baseball cube 2 remove ads from this page for other visitors. He was recognized as the state baseball player of the year by the california interscholastic federation cif southern section in 1938. The baseball almanac is more a bathroom book than a coffeetable volume. This award was established before there was a cy young award, mlbs. Turley attended harvardwestlake school, where he played for the schools baseball team.
Stats awards fabulous feats famous firsts hall of fame hitting charts legendary lists pitching charts record books. The bottom of the card has stats for both 1960 and the players career. Turley s business success far surpassed his baseball accomplishments. Italic season totals indicate player led all major leagues. Year age agedif tm lg lev aff w l wl% era ra9 g gs gf cg sho sv ip h r er hr. He had a curve, a slider and a changeup, but the fastball was his magic. The baseball almanac trades and transactions database includes rule 5 draft picks, free agency information, voided trades, waiver picks, expansion draft data, amateur draft data, player refusals, bonus babies, and many other types of not readily found anywhere on the internet. Career statistics and player information from mlb, or espn, or baseball reference, or baseball reference minors bob grims biographical information and statistics on the baseball almanac site. Remembering the yankees part in the largest trade in. Looking in the phone book, he found the listing for bobs grandfather and asked if there was a. Dean also has written two books on collecting vintage baseball cards.
After his retirement from baseball, he worked for primerica financial services. After his retirement from baseball, he worked for primerica financial services turley made his mlb debut with the st. Organize and price your collections as we offer instant access to the worlds leading trading card and collectibles databases. The latest nik turley stats, video highlights, news and more from milb. The 1958 world series was a rematch of the 1957 world series.
Enhanced by 1200 additional hours of boxscore analysis and indepth research requires stratomatic baseball 2012 or higher to play. Turley was 21 years old when he broke into the big leagues on september 29, 1951, with the st. The chart below is a comprehensive analysis of the games turley appeared in, specifically relating to his 1957 hitting statistics. Bob turley project gutenberg selfpublishing ebooks.
Bob grim baseball project gutenberg selfpublishing. Bob turley, a cy young awardwinning righthanded pitcher whose. His major league debut was on april 18, 1954 for the yankees. Ed connolly trades and transactions by baseball almanac. Sure, we just wanted to let you know that the 7 day subscription term is exclusively designed for you and not available at our regular pricing. Such was the case during labor day weekend 1953 for bob turley, during the browns final month of existence as an active major league franchise. He wore uniform number 55 for the yankees during his entire period on the team. Minor league baseball trademarks and s are the property of minor league. World heritage encyclopedia, the aggregation of the largest online encyclopedias available, and the most definitive. This weeks twins minor league player of the week is also todays minnesota twins starting pitcher against the san francisco giants, lefthander nik turley. It was filled with fascinating sidebars and anecdotes and even though ive read just about everything, i kept saying gee, i didnt know that. Out of high school, the new york yankees selected turley in the 50th round, with the 1,502nd selection, of the 2008 major league baseball draft. Bullet bob was one of the hardestthrowing pitchers of the 1950s and one of the wildest of any generation.
Sporting news established the pitcher of the year award in 1944 to recognize the most outstanding pitchers in major league baseball mlb. Turley pitched one season for the orioles in 1954, their first in baltimore, and he started the first big league game at memorial stadium. Dell sports baseball 1959 new yorker yankees bob turley the 1959 forecast national league american league 1958 history baseball. Until 1969, it was the only major award given to a single player from mlb, rather than to a player in each league. Robert lee turley september 19, 1930 march 30, 20, known as bullet bob, was an american professional baseball player and financial planner.
Fireball pitcher hardcover january 1, 1959 by gene schoor author see all formats and editions hide other formats and editions. All professional baseball statistics for bob turley. The new york yankees defeated the defending champion milwaukee braves in seven games for their 18th title, and their seventh in 10 years. Mickey mantle, willie mays, roberto clemente, yogi berra and hank aaron are among the alltime greats on the checklist. Bob turley was born on friday, september 19, 1930, in troy, illinois. Get the best deals on bob turley baseball cards when you shop the largest online.