The vanishing (baseball) screwball
Good feature in this past NY Times magazine section. Today there's only one major league baseball player throwing "the screwgie", to quote Phil Rizzuto. Rizzuto would (as any longtime Yankee fan would know) have been referring to Luis Arroyo and his screwball – and his glittering 1961 season as a Yankee reliever. No reference to … Read more