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Cy Young Award Winner in 1958 Bullet Bob Turley looks back on his big league career.(pitcher)(Interview)
YOU'RE OLD IF YOU REMEMBER the days when pitchers used big, sweeping windups: the arms pulled back behind them, then up over the head--sometimes twice, the big high kick, the throwing arm reaching way back. A lot of energy went into those gyrations and windmills.
Then in 1956, a pair of young Yankees right-handers, Bob Turley and Don Larsen, tried something different.
Sitting in his home on Marco Island, Florida, overlooking the Gulf of Mexico, Bob Turley recalled those days, and credited pitching coach Jim Turner with launching their no-windup style of pitching.
"He did it with both of us, but for different reasons," Turley said. "We were in ...
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