Edward Charles “Whitey” Ford was an American professional baseball pitcher. He played his entire 16-year Major League Baseball career with the New York Yankees. Ford was a 10-time All-Star and 6-time World Series champion. In 1961, he won both the Cy Young Award and World Series Most Valuable Player Award. He was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1974.
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Edward Charles “Whitey” Ford was an American professional baseball pitcher. He played his entire 16-year Major League Baseball career with the New York Yankees. Ford was a 10-time All-Star and 6-time World Series champion. In 1961, he won both the Cy Young Award and World Series Most Valuable Player Award. He is the Yankees franchise leader in career wins, shutouts, innings pitched, and games started by a pitcher. Ford died on October 8, 2020, at the age of 91. The Yankees retired his uniform number 16 in 1974 and dedicated a plaque in his honor in Monument Park in 1987. Ford signed with the Yankees as an amateur free agent in 1947 and made his major league debut in 1950. He was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1974. He served as the Yankees pitching coach in 1964 while still a player and from 1974 to 1975 after retiring. In 1951, Ford married Joan at St. Patrick’s Catholic Church in Glen Cove, New York on Long Island. They had two sons and a daughter together. Ford never threw a no-hitter, but he pitched two consecutive one-hit games in 1955 to tie a record held by several pitchers. In 1955, Ford led the American League in wins three times and in earned run average twice.
He became known as the \”Chairman of the Board\” for his ability to remain calm and in command during high-pressure situations. Ford’s guile was necessary because he did not have an overwhelming fastball, but being able to throw several other pitches very well gave him pinpoint control. In the wake of Yogi Berra’s death in 2015, George Vecsey of The New York Times suggested that Ford was now \”The Greatest Living Yankee\”. He was also known as \”Slick\”, a nickname given to him, Billy Martin, and Mickey Mantle by manager Casey Stengel, who called them Whiskey Slicks. Ford wore number 19 in his rookie season, but upon his return he changed to number 16, which he wore for the remainder of his career. Some of Ford’s numbers for the Los Angeles Dodgers of the National League’s National League could not match Sandy Koufax’s for each league, but this was before the institution of a separate award for each team and Ford could not have won the 1963 Cy Young award for both teams. Ford won the Cy. Young Award in 1961; he likely would have won it in 1963 if not for the Cleveland Indians’ Ralph Houk.
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