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Whitey Ford

Birthdate:

10/21/1928

Height / Weight:

5' 10" / 181 lbs.

Place of Birth:

New York, NY, USA

Bats / Throws:

L / L

Baseball Historian Biography

Whitey Ford has the highest win-loss career percentage of any pitcher in this century. His record of 236-106, a .690 pct. is the best in the current Major Professional League. Baseball History Ford opened his career with the New York Yankees by winning his first nine games and was 9-1 as a rookie, starting 12 games and completing 7. Baseball fans gathered by their radios and listened to the last game of the 1950 World Series; Ford set down the Philadelphia Phillies (The Whiz Kids), enabling the Yankees to sweep all four games. Ford spent the next two seasons as a private in the Army Signal Corp. 1951-1952. In 1953, "Whitey" Ford's record was 18-6 and in the World Series, he won game 7 over the famed Brooklyn Dodgers. He went 16-8 in 1954.

Whitey Ford was the pitching star in the 1955 World Series over the Dodgers, winning games 1 and 6. Ed "Whitey" Ford pitched 32 straight scoreless innings in World Series play breaking Babe Ruth's record of 29.6. In 1956, Ford was 19-6, a .760 pct with an ERA of 2.47. He started 30 games and completed 18. Yankee catcher Elston Howard called "Whitey" Ford "the Chairman of the Board" because of his masterly fashion in which he controlled the batters and all fielders around him. Ford won the Cy Young Award in 1963, when he won 24 games and lost only 7, pct .774, with an ERA of 2.74. Ed "Whitey" Ford's numbers include 236-106, pct .690. Started 438 games, completed 156, including 45 shutouts. He pitched 3170 innings and complied an 2.75 ERA. His career opponents BA was .235. New York Yankees History

Pitching Statistics

Year	Team	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	WP	HBP	BK	ERA
1950	NYY (AL)	20	12	9	1	1	7	2	112.0	87	39	35	7	52	0	59	3	2	0	2.81
1953	NYY (AL)	32	30	18	6	0	11	3	207.0	187	77	69	13	110	0	110	3	4	0	3.00
1954	NYY (AL)	34	28	16	8	1	11	3	210.2	170	72	66	10	101	0	125	1	1	0	2.82
1955	NYY (AL)	39	33	18	7	2	18	5	253.2	188	83	74	20	113	7	137	7	1	1	2.63
1956	NYY (AL)	31	30	19	6	1	18	2	225.2	187	70	62	13	84	3	141	6	4	0	2.47
1957	NYY (AL)	24	17	11	5	0	5	0	129.1	114	46	37	10	53	3	84	2	1	2	2.57
1958	NYY (AL)	30	29	14	7	1	15	7	219.1	174	62	49	14	62	3	145	5	3	1	2.01
1959	NYY (AL)	35	29	16	10	1	9	2	204.0	194	82	69	13	89	5	114	5	1	1	3.04
1960	NYY (AL)	33	29	12	9	0	8	4	192.2	168	76	66	15	65	5	85	5	1	0	3.08
1961	NYY (AL)	39	39	25	4	0	11	3	283.0	242	108	101	23	92	3	209	8	1	0	3.21
1962	NYY (AL)	38	37	17	8	0	7	0	257.2	243	90	83	22	69	1	160	5	4	0	2.90
1963	NYY (AL)	38	37	24	7	1	13	3	269.1	240	94	82	26	56	3	189	9	2	0	2.74
1964	NYY (AL)	39	36	17	6	1	12	8	244.2	212	67	58	10	57	3	172	6	2	0	2.13
1965	NYY (AL)	37	36	16	13	1	9	2	244.1	241	97	88	22	50	2	162	7	1	0	3.24
1966	NYY (AL)	22	9	2	5	0	0	0	73.0	79	33	20	8	24	6	43	1	0	0	2.47
1967	NYY (AL)	7	7	2	4	0	2	1	44.0	40	11	8	2	9	0	21	2	0	0	1.64
16 years		498	438	236	106	10	156	45	3170.1	2766	1107	967	228	1086	44	1956	75	28	5	2.75

Batting Statistics

Year	Team	G	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	CS	IBB	HBP	SH	SF	AVG	OBP	SLG
1950	NYY (AL)	20	36	2	7	0	0	0	3	4	4	0	0	0	0	4	0	.194	.275	SLG
1953	NYY (AL)	33	75	10	20	2	0	0	10	9	13	0	0	0	0	1	0	.267	.345	SLG
1954	NYY (AL)	34	62	7	10	1	0	0	7	9	15	0	0	0	0	7	1	.161	.264	SLG
1955	NYY (AL)	39	86	9	14	0	0	1	7	11	16	0	0	0	0	3	0	.163	.258	SLG
1956	NYY (AL)	31	78	9	17	2	0	0	4	9	14	0	0	0	0	5	0	.218	.299	SLG
1957	NYY (AL)	24	42	4	6	0	0	0	2	3	7	0	0	0	0	5	0	.143	.200	SLG
1958	NYY (AL)	30	73	10	15	1	0	0	2	5	10	0	0	0	1	5	0	.205	.266	SLG
1959	NYY (AL)	35	65	6	15	4	0	1	6	12	11	0	0	0	0	3	0	.231	.351	SLG
1960	NYY (AL)	33	53	4	8	2	0	0	3	9	14	0	0	0	0	4	0	.151	.274	SLG
1961	NYY (AL)	39	96	11	17	1	0	0	10	12	17	0	0	0	0	5	1	.177	.266	SLG
1962	NYY (AL)	38	85	5	10	2	0	0	5	8	22	1	0	0	1	3	2	.118	.198	SLG
1963	NYY (AL)	38	92	5	13	2	0	1	4	6	22	2	2	0	0	5	0	.141	.194	SLG
1964	NYY (AL)	39	67	5	8	1	0	0	2	10	23	0	0	0	1	7	0	.119	.244	SLG
1965	NYY (AL)	38	82	4	15	1	0	0	4	5	26	0	0	0	0	6	0	.183	.230	SLG
1966	NYY (AL)	22	18	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	.0	.53	SLG
1967	NYY (AL)	7	13	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	4	0	0	0	0	2	0	.154	.154	SLG
16 years		500	1023	91	177	19	0	3	69	113	224	3	2	0	3	65	4	.173	.256	.SLG

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