Lest we forget: Whitey Ford

October 9, 2020

Yankees Hall of Famer Whitey Ford dies at 91 | INFORUMRemember the other day when I asked when does this end? Obviously not any time soon.

The latest casualty is Edward Charles “Whitey” Ford, who died last night (Oct. 8) at the age of 91.

Nicknamed “The Chairman of the Board” and “Slick,” Ford spent his entire career with the New York Yankees, from 1950-1967 (with two years off for military service). Despite winning 20 games only twice, he was nevertheless a Cy Young award winner, an eight-time All-Star, and was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1974 with his partner in crime, Mickey Mantle. They were synonymous with the great Yankee teams of the 50s and early 60s and symbols of boomer generation fandom.

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Ford published his autobiography — Slick: My Life in and Around Baseball — written with long-time New York sportswriter Phil Pepe, in 1987. He also collaborated with Pepe on Few and Chosen Yankees: Defining Yankee Greatness Across the Eras by Whitey Ford.

Other books about about and ostensibly by include The Whitey Ford Story, by Milton Shapiro; Whitey and Mickey which he wrote with Mantle and Joseph Durso; and Whitey Ford by Miles Coverdale Jr., as well as something called The Fighting Southpaw, which he wrote”with Jack Lang.

Slick: My Life in and Around Baseball by Whitey Ford (1987-04-01): Whitey Ford; Phil Pepe: Amazon.com: Books. . Pin on Autographs-Original. Sports, Mem, Cards and Fan Shop.

Here’s his obituary from The New York Times, written by Richard Goldstein; Bill Madden of the New York Daily News; ESPN; the Washington Post; and the Baseball Hall of Fame.

 

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