{"id":1100,"date":"2020-10-10T00:44:10","date_gmt":"2020-10-10T00:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1100"},"modified":"2025-09-29T13:44:22","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T13:44:22","slug":"whitey-ford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1100","title":{"rendered":"Whitey Ford"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/6a00d834525a2f69e2026be4191322200d-200wi.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12819\" title=\"Whitey pitching\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/6a00d834525a2f69e2026be4191322200d-200wi.jpg 200w, https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/6a00d834525a2f69e2026be4191322200d-200wi-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Oh no! Sad day in Farandaville. Whitey Ford &#8211; along with Yogi Berra &#8211; favorite Yankee. The great left handed pitcher with the best (690) winning percentage of the 20th century. And his lifetime ERA (earned run average) was an incredible 2.75.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m also left handed and my first baseball glove was the Whitey Ford signature model. My mother must have tossed that beloved glove out, probably while I was living abroad and long after it was totally worn out. I can see it now and often thought of it whenever I saw Whitey Ford at Old Timers games. I&#8217;m putting a couple of pictures up as well as thoughts from Yankees who knew him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"250\" height=\"184\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/6a00d834525a2f69e2026bde9a35a2200c-250wi.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12820\" title=\"Whitey and yogi\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This from Buck Showalter and what Whitey Ford&#8217;s impression of Mariano Rivera was &#8211;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YuBw0f-J-2I\" width=\"480\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Paul O&#8217;Neill&#8217;s voice cracks a little at the end of his comments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hHZzzbldu9w\" width=\"480\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh no! Sad day in Farandaville. Whitey Ford &#8211; along with Yogi Berra &#8211; favorite Yankee. The great left handed pitcher with the best (690) winning percentage of the 20th century. And his lifetime ERA (earned run average) was an incredible 2.75. I&#8217;m also left handed and my first baseball glove was the Whitey Ford [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1100"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12821,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1100\/revisions\/12821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}