6+2⁄3 innings of two-hit relief. [33] The Yankees became just the second team to recover from a 3–1 World Series deficit, and Turley was voted the World SeriesMost Valuable Player Award. [33] As a result of his 1958 season, Turley won the Hickok Belt as top professional athlete of the year, receiving twice as many votes as Jim Brown, the second-place finisher. [34] He also won the Cy Young Award as the best pitcher in Major League Baseball, edging Warren Spahn of the Braves by one vote, and Lew Burdette of the Braves and Bob Friend of the Pittsburgh Pirates by two votes. [33] [35] Turley finished second in the American League Most Valuable Player Award voting, losing to Jackie Jensen of the Boston Red Sox. [3] [36] Additionally, he won The Sporting News 'Player of the Year and Pitcher of the Year Awards. [37]
Turley earned a $35,000 salary for the 1959 season, his highest as a baseball player. [38] [39] The Yankees chose Turley to be their Opening Day starting pitcher for the 1959 season, opposing Tom Brewer of the Red Sox. [40] The Yankees won the game by a 3–2 score. [41] However, Turley's fastball began to lose its effectiveness. He increased the usage of his curveball to compensate. [31] Turley finished the year with an 8–11 win–loss record. In the 1960 season, Turley had a 9–3 win–loss record, [42] and his 3.27 ERA was the seventh best in the American League. [43] He started Game Two of the 1960 World Series against the Pirates, earning the win. He also started the deciding Game Seven, which the Pirates won, taking the series. [44]
Turley suffered through discomfort in his right elbow during the 1961 season, which resulted in a 3–5 win–loss record and 5.75 ERA in only 15 games pitched. [45] New manager Ralph Houk began to emphasize his younger pitchers, as he removed Turley from the starting rotation and used him as a relief pitcher. [46] Though the Yankees reached the 1961 World Series, and defeated the Cincinnati Reds four games to one, Turley did not make an appearance. [47] After seeking medical attention, [48] Turley was diagnosed with bone chips in his elbow. He underwent surgery in the offseason to remove the bone chips, and returned to the Yankees confident his performance would improve in 1962. He agreed to a salary cut, from $28,000 to $25,000. [49] However, the bone chips recurred during the 1962 season. As a result, his effectiveness was limited in 1962 as well. [50] On June 25, Turley started a game that lasted 22 innings, and a record seven hours, but was removed after recording only one out. [51] During the 1962 season, American League players elected Turley as their player representative, following Woodling's trade to the National League. [52] [53] Over the season, Turley pitched to a 4.57 ERA in only 69 innings. [54] The Yankees defeated the San Francisco Giants four games to three in the 1962 World Series, but Turley was not an active participant. [55]
Los Angeles Angels, Boston Red Sox, and coaching
After the 1962 season, the Yankees sold Turley to the Los Angeles Angels for cash, in the first move made by new Yankees' general manager Roy Hamey, who sought to rebuild the Yankees pitching staff. [50] The move was conditional; the Angels could return Turley if they were not satisfied with him. The Angels chose to retain Turley at the start of the 1963 season. [56] Turley struggled, winning two games while losing seven, and the Angels released him in July. [57] A week later, he signed with the Boston Red Sox. [58] Turley retired after the 1963 season, with a 101–85 win–loss record and a 3.64 ERA in 12 seasons. [21]
After the 1963 season, Turley agreed to remain with the Red Sox as their pitching coach, succeeding Harry Dorish. [59] Turley spent one season as the Red Sox' pitching coach, [31] and was released at the end of the year. [60] He attempted to make a comeback as a pitcher with the Houston Colt .45s in 1965, [61] but did not make the team. He then agreed to become the pitching coach for the Richmond Braves of the International League, a minor league team in the Atlanta Braves organization, in 1966, [62] but resigned before the start of the 1966 season. [63] [64]
Sign stealing
Turley got into the habit while on the bench of stealing signs when he saw the opposing pitcher throw. Using a system of whistling where be whistled if the next pitch was different from the last, he would attempt to help any Yankee who wanted the advice, with Johnny Blanchard and Elston Howard being appreciative of the help while Moose Skowron and Yogi Berra did not care. In one instance, Jim Bunning of the Detroit Tigers noticed the system and pointed to Turley to stop or he would knock down the batter (which happened to be Mickey Mantle). When Turley whistled anyway, he threw a missile in the middle of the box that Mantle missed on, which led to the next batter in Berra pleading that he wasn't listening to whistles. [65] In 1961, even when he was on the injured list, he remained on the bench to do his system, and Tony Kubek estimated that Mickey Mantle his fifty homeruns in part due to Turley, and Mantle once credited half of his home runs to Turley. [66] Roger Maris and his historic 61st home run was hit after the sign for the pitch was decoded by the third base coach, an acolyte of Turley's system. [67]
Personal life
Turley moved from East St. Louis to Lutherville, Maryland, in 1954, when the Browns moved to Baltimore. Though he played in Baltimore for one season, he remained in Lutherville for the remainder of his baseball career, and sent his children to the local public schools. [11]
Turley began working as a financial planner in 1957, by selling life insurance. [38] He also operated a bowling alley in Bel Air, Maryland, and an insurance firm in Baltimore. [11] In 1977, Turley joined with Arthur L. Williams Jr. and five others to found A. L. Williams & Associates, an insurance company. [3] [68] At A. L. Williams, agents advised clients to purchase term life insurance, rather than cash value life insurance, and invest the money they saved in mutual funds. [38] The company became Primerica Financial Services, and was later bought out by Citigroup in 1989. [38] He retired from the business in 2001, and sold half of his business to his son and the other half to Lynn Webb, a senior national sales director. [3]
Later in his life, Turley resided in Blue Ridge, Georgia, and had a winter home on Marco Island, Florida. [3] [38] Turley's hobby was real estate. He bought and sold many homes on Marco Island, including a 13,500 square feet (1,250 m2) home he built that was locally referred to as "Turley Mansion" and "Turley Castle". In total, Turley and his wife bought and sold 27 houses on Marco Island and in Naples, Florida. [3]
Turley made an appearance on It's News to Me, a current events-based game show hosted by Walter Cronkite. [69] He was mentioned in a song called "St. Louis Browns" by Skip Battin, who was the bass guitarist of The Byrds and the New Riders of the Purple Sage. In the lyrics, Battin describes Turley as a "no-hit pitcher" who "got too surly" and who was "traded...too early". [70]
Turley's uncle, Ralph, also played professional baseball. The Yankees signed Ralph Turley in 1949 when they meant to sign Bob, and released Ralph when they discovered he was the "wrong Turley". [2] Nik Turley, a Yankees prospect, identified Bob Turley as a "distant relative". [71]
Death
Turley lived in Alpharetta, Georgia, for the last two years of his life. [3] He died on March 30, 2013, in hospice care at Lenbrook, a retirement community in Atlanta at age 82 from liver cancer. [11] [38] [72] Turley was cremated in Duluth, Georgia. [3]
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External links
- Career statistics from Baseball Reference, or Fangraphs, or Baseball Reference (Minors)
- Baseball Almanac page
| Bob Turley | |
|---|---|
 Turley in 1959 | |
| Pitcher | |
| Born:September 19, 1930 Troy, Illinois, U.S. | |
| Died: March 30, 2013 (aged 82) Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. | |
Batted: Right Threw: Right | |
| MLB debut | |
| September 29, 1951, for the St. Louis Browns | |
| Last MLB appearance | |
| September 21, 1963, for the Boston Red Sox |