56 Facts About Sal Maglie

Salvatore Anthony Maglie was an American Major League Baseball pitcher and later, a scout and a pitching coach.

Sal Maglie played from 1945 to 1958 for the New York Giants, Cleveland Indians, Brooklyn Dodgers, New York Yankees, and St Louis Cardinals.

Sal Maglie was the last of 14 players to play for the Giants, Dodgers and Yankees at a time when all three teams were in New York City.

Sal Maglie started pitching again with the Jersey City Giants in 1945, then made his major league debut with the Giants later that year at the age of 28, starting 10 games for the Giants.

Sal Maglie followed this with an 18-win performance in 1952, but back trouble threatened his career in 1953.

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Sal Maglie spent one more season with the Giants in 1955 before being claimed off waivers by the Indians on July 31.

Seldom used with Cleveland, Sal Maglie joined the Dodgers in May 1956 and went on to finish second in NL Most Valuable Player and MLB Cy Young Award voting.

Sal Maglie threw a no-hitter against the Philadelphia Phillies on September 25 and pitched in the 1956 World Series.

Sal Maglie spent three more seasons with the Dodgers, Yankees, and Cardinals before retiring in 1959.

Sal Maglie held a variety of jobs in Niagara Falls before retiring in 1979.

Sal Maglie died on December 28,1992, due to bronchial pneumonia complications.

Salvatore Anthony Maglie was born on April 26,1917, in Niagara Falls, New York, the youngest of three children of Giuseppe Maglie and Maria Breve.

Sal Maglie showed an interest in baseball from an early age, but his parents discouraged it, and he tried to keep his playing a secret from them.

Sal Maglie was offered a basketball scholarship by Niagara University but turned it down because baseball was his favorite sport.

Sal Maglie began his professional career with Buffalo in 1938, appearing in five games and posting a 3.

Sal Maglie spent a full season with Buffalo in 1939, pitching in 39 games but posting a 4.

In 1941, Sal Maglie pitched for the Single-A Elmira Pioneers of the Eastern League.

Sal Maglie credited team owner and former major league pitcher Jack Ogden with teaching him one of the most important lessons he learned in his whole baseball career.

Sal Maglie returned to Jersey City at the beginning of the 1945 season, where he was this time used as a starter.

Candidate to rejoin the Giants' rotation in 1946, Sal Maglie attended spring training with the ballclub but was not happy with how he was treated by Mel Ott, the Giants' manager.

Sal Maglie joined a barnstorming team in 1948 that Lanier had organized; however, the team's earnings failed to cover expenses, and they folded in August 1948.

Sal Maglie went back to Niagara Falls and purchased a house and a gas station, but he still wanted to play baseball and joined the Drummondville Cubs of the independent Provincial League in 1949, leading the team to a league championship.

Sal Maglie made the team out of spring training in 1950, but manager Leo Durocher used him sparingly the first part of the year, unimpressed right away with his new pitcher.

Sal Maglie emerged as the mainstay of the Giants' bullpen in the first part of the 1950 season.

Sal Maglie finished 10th in NL Most Valuable Player voting after the season.

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Sal Maglie was named to the All-Star Game, the first of two consecutive selections.

Sal Maglie allowed a run in the first but settled down after that, retiring 11 batters in a row at one point.

Sal Maglie started the 1952 season with a nine-game winning streak, including three shutouts.

Sal Maglie's career seemed to be over, but a chiropractor prescribed him an eighth-inch thick lift for one of his shoes to correct a tilted pelvis.

The last out was a ground ball hit by Roy Campanella to the mound that Sal Maglie tossed to first baseman Whitey Lockman; once the out was recorded, Lockman rushed to meet his pitcher and jumped in his arms in celebration.

Sal Maglie started Game 1 of the 1954 World Series against the Cleveland Indians, allowing two runs in seven innings.

Sal Maglie got a no-decision as the Giants won the game in 10 innings on a pinch-hit home run by Dusty Rhodes.

Sal Maglie had pitched only two games for Cleveland all year, both in relief, and it seemed that his career was "all through, " according to Robert Creamer of Sports Illustrated.

Sal Maglie finished second to teammate Don Newcombe in balloting for the first ever Cy Young Award, and was second to Newcombe in MVP balloting.

Sal Maglie was expected to be the Dodgers' Game 1 starter in the 1956 World Series on October 3, but an upset stomach and a stiff shoulder experienced a couple days before left his status in doubt.

Sal Maglie held the Yankees to two runs in another complete game effort in Game 5 but suffered the loss because Don Larsen threw a perfect game for the Yankees, who won the series in seven games.

Part of the Yankees roster in 1958, the 41-year-old Sal Maglie was not used until May 18, the 23rd game of the year for New York, though there were no reports of this being due to injury.

Sal Maglie only made two more starts for the Yankees after that and posted a 4.

Sal Maglie attempted to return to the Cardinals for the 1959 season, but the team handed him his unconditional release at the end of spring training.

In spite of a slow start in the minor leagues and the four years he was banned for pitching in the Mexican League, Sal Maglie became "one of the most accomplished pitchers of his era, " according to Joseph Durso of the New York Times.

Sal Maglie was the last of 14 players to play for the Giants, Dodgers, and Yankees at a time when all three teams were in New York City.

However, after Sal Maglie was acquired by the Dodgers in 1956, the two became friends and even roommates at times.

Hall of Fame pitcher Don Drysdale credited Sal Maglie with teaching him the art of brushing back batters while the two were teammates in Brooklyn.

In September of 1958, the Associated Press wrote that Sal Maglie was a candidate to be St Louis's pitching coach in 1959.

Boston Red Sox hired Sal Maglie to be their pitching coach before the 1960 season, and he served in that capacity for the next three years.

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Sal Maglie did not initially pursue another coaching job because his wife, Kay, was diagnosed with cancer in 1963.

Sal Maglie invested in local businesses around Niagara Falls, engaged in public speaking, and joined the New York State Athletic Commission in 1965.

Sal Maglie was the pitching coach for the "Impossible Dream" Red Sox that went all the way to the 1967 World Series before losing in seven games to the Cardinals.

Sal Maglie was not unemployed long, as he was hired as a scout for the expansion Seattle Pilots in 1968.

Sal Maglie was profiled unflatteringly in Jim Bouton's book Ball Four, despite the fact that he was Bouton's boyhood hero.

Bouton commented that Sal Maglie rarely gave useful advice to the pitchers, and frequently second-guessed their choice of pitches, often contradicting his previous second guessing.

Bouton and Sal Maglie clashed over the knuckleball, which Bouton wanted to throw exclusively; Sal Maglie preferred that he throw other pitches as well.

The Pilots filed for bankruptcy after the season and moved to Milwaukee, where they became the Brewers; Sal Maglie was not retained as the organization's pitching coach for 1970.

Sal Maglie served as the general manager of his hometown Niagara Falls Pirates that season, his final baseball-related job.

In March 1941, Sal Maglie eloped with Kay Pileggi, whom he had dated for a while; the couple was married in a Catholic ceremony in May of that year.

Sal Maglie lived for five more years before dying on December 28,1992, due to bronchial pneumonia complications.