Literary birthday greetings: Steady Eddie

June 21, 2011

Seems every Edward/Ed gets that nickname.

Lopat, born in 1918, pitched 12 seasons, mostly for the juggernaut Yankees of the late 1940s-mid 1950s. He won 21 games in 1951 and led the American League in winning percentage and ERA in 1953.

He was one of the subjects of Sol Gittleman’s 2007 book, Reynolds, Raschi and Lopat: New York’s Big Three and Great Yankee Dynasty of 1949-1953, but I remember him as one of my first baseball cards:

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