You kind of took it for granted around the Yankees that there was always going to be baseball in October.
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I was going to pitch the first, fourth and seventh games. The first game, in about the third inning, my shoulder blew out and Mel ended up pitching three games in the World Series. He pitched great, but we lost in seven games. On the way back to New York after losing the seventh game, Yogi said to me, How did you like pitching and coaching' I said, Fine.' He said, Would you do it again next year' I said, Yeah.' The next day, Yogi was fired.Whitey Ford
Army life was rough. Would you believe it, they actually wanted me to pitch three times a week.
Whitey Ford
Sooner or later the arm goes bad. It has to... Sooner or later you have to start pitching in pain.
Whitey Ford
I never threw the spitter, well maybe once or twice when I really needed to get a guy out real bad.
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When Mel came up in 1964 in the middle of the season, I was his pitching coach, but I was also pitching every fourth day besides. Yogi Berra was our manager. That's why it was all screwed up.
Whitey Ford
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.
Whitey Ford
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