45 Facts About Bob Turley

Bob Turley played in Major League Baseball as a pitcher from 1951 through 1963.

Bob Turley led the American League in wins in 1958, and won the Cy Young Award, World Series Most Valuable Player Award, and Hickok Belt that year.

Bob Turley finished his playing career with the Los Angeles Angels and Boston Red Sox in 1963, and then coached the Red Sox in 1964.

Bob Turley began working in financial planning during the baseball offseason.

Bob Turley invested in real estate, buying and selling 27 houses in Florida.

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Bob Turley attended East St Louis Senior High School in East St Louis, and played for the school's baseball squad for three years.

Bob Turley was used as both a starter and reliever, becoming the staff's ace pitcher by the end of his senior season, in 1948.

Bob Turley attended a workout camp for the New York Yankees, held in Maryville, Illinois.

Bob Turley was promoted to the Aberdeen Pheasants of the Class C Northern League in 1949, and led the league in wins with 23, and strikeouts with 205.

Bob Turley appeared in the Texas League's All-Star Game, and was named the league's most valuable player at the end of the season.

Bob Turley played his first game in the major leagues on September 29,1951.

Bob Turley did not pitch again in 1951, and after the season ended, he enlisted with the United States Army for two years.

Bob Turley returned to the Browns in August 1953, and caught attention for his high strikeout rate.

Bob Turley remained with the team after they moved to Baltimore, Maryland, to become the Baltimore Orioles in 1954.

Bob Turley pitched the first game at Memorial Stadium, striking out nine in a complete game.

The magazine Look wrote a story about Bob Turley, and wanted to measure the velocity of his fastball.

Bob Turley pitched in Game Three of the 1955 World Series, losing to Johnny Podres.

Bob Turley made two relief appearances in the series, in Games Five and Seven, as the Dodgers defeated the Yankees four games to three.

Bob Turley appeared in Games One and Two of the 1956 World Series against the Dodgers as a relief pitcher.

Bob Turley won his first World Series game in Game Six, a complete game.

Bob Turley started Game Two of the 1958 World Series by allowing up a leadoff home run and lasting just one-third of an inning as the Yankees fell behind the Milwaukee Braves two games to none.

Bob Turley won the Cy Young Award as the best pitcher in Major League Baseball, edging Warren Spahn of the Braves by one vote, and Lew Burdette of the Braves and Bob Friend of the Pittsburgh Pirates by two votes.

Bob Turley finished second in the American League Most Valuable Player Award voting, losing to Jackie Jensen of the Boston Red Sox.

Bob Turley earned a $35,000 salary for the 1959 season, his highest as a baseball player.

The Yankees chose Bob Turley to be their Opening Day starting pitcher for the 1959 season, opposing Tom Brewer of the Red Sox.

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Bob Turley increased the usage of his curveball to compensate.

Bob Turley started Game Two of the 1960 World Series against the Pirates, earning the win.

Bob Turley started the deciding Game Seven, which the Pirates won, taking the series.

Bob Turley underwent surgery in the offseason to remove the bone chips, and returned to the Yankees confident his performance would improve in 1962.

Bob Turley spent one season as the Red Sox' pitching coach, and was released at the end of the year.

Bob Turley attempted to make a comeback as a pitcher with the Houston Colt.

Bob Turley then agreed to become the pitching coach for the Richmond Braves of the International League, a minor league team in the Atlanta Braves organization, in 1966, but resigned before the start of the 1966 season.

Bob Turley got into the habit while on the bench of stealing signs when he saw the opposing pitcher throw.

Bob Turley moved from East St Louis to Lutherville, Maryland, in 1954, when the Browns moved to Baltimore.

Bob Turley began working as a financial planner in 1957, by selling life insurance.

Bob Turley operated a bowling alley in Bel Air, Maryland, and an insurance firm in Baltimore.

Bob Turley became Primerica Financial Services, and was later bought out by Citigroup in 1989.

Bob Turley retired from the business in 2001, and sold half of his business to his son and the other half to Lynn Webb, a senior national sales director.

Later in his life, Bob Turley resided in Blue Ridge, Georgia, and had a winter home on Marco Island, Florida.

Bob Turley bought and sold many homes on Marco Island, including a 13,500 square feet home he built that was locally referred to as "Turley Mansion" and "Turley Castle".

Bob Turley made an appearance on It's News to Me, a current events-based game show hosted by Walter Cronkite.

Bob Turley was mentioned in a song called "St Louis Browns" by Skip Battin, who was the bass guitarist of The Byrds and the New Riders of the Purple Sage.

Bob Turley lived in Alpharetta, Georgia, for the last two years of his life.

Bob Turley died on March 30,2013, in hospice care at Lenbrook, a retirement community in Atlanta at age 82 from liver cancer.

Bob Turley is survived by his second wife, Janet; two sons, Terry and Donald; daughter, Rowena; and seventeen grandchildren.

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