Rest in Peace, Larry Sherry

[milagros317]

Former Dodger pitcher Larry Sherry died on Sunday of cancer. He was 71. Most baseball fans wouldn't remember him at all, but Dodger fans will recall that he was the MVP of the 1959 World Series, winning two games and saving two games, hence having a role in all four Dodger victories.

Here is the article about it from the Dodgers' webite:

LOS ANGELES -- Larry Sherry, Most Valuable Player of the Dodgers' 1959 World Series championship, died Sunday from cancer. He was 71.
Sherry, a rookie reliever, was 2-0 with two saves and a 0.71 ERA in the Dodgers' 1959 World Series win over the Chicago White Sox.

"Larry Sherry was a local product who became a household name in Los Angeles with his World Series heroics in 1959," the Dodgers said in a statement. "He will always be associated with the Dodgers' first championship in Los Angeles, and our deepest sympathies go out to his brother, Norm, and the entire Sherry family."

Sherry, brother of fellow Major Leaguer and former manager Norm Sherry, grew up in Los Angeles and died at his home in Mission Viejo, Calif. Sherry had to overcome birth defects and several operations on his feet to become a multiple-sport star in high school.

In 1960, Sherry and his brother became the first all-Jewish battery in Major League history. Sherry also pitched for the Detroit Tigers, Houston Astros and California Angels, compiling a 53-44 record, 3.67 ERA and 82 saves.

His out pitch was a slider he learned from his brother, Norm. Sherry was traded by the Dodgers to the Tigers for Lou Johnson, who helped the Dodgers win the 1965 World Series. After his playing career, Sherry was a pitching coach for the Pittsburgh and California organizations.

 

[Knox The Hatter]

Norm and Larry Sherry, AND Wally Moon, are forever associated with that very brief period when the Dodgers played their home games in the Colisseum.

I don't think any of the fans there ever got to SEE any of these guys play. The stands were so far away from the field in the Colisseum that they really had to rely on Scully's descriptions over transistor radios.

 

[milagros317]

And I had to rely on radio "re-creations" of Dodger games by New York radio stations getting telegraph messages from the game in that era.

(Such re-creations stopped after the Mets were created in 1962.)

 

[Knox The Hatter]

Actually, you yourself might prove to be a wealth of information about that sort of thing...

My parents could not. Dyed-in-the-wool Yankee fans, at the time, they were too wrapped up in Mantle and Maris, et al to know what Dodgers and Giants fans who still cared were doing in their quest to follow their clubs.

Here I am, on Christmas Eve morning, enjoying an overripe banana in front of the monitor...have a great holiday, and a rest from your concerns, Milagros.