Larry Sherry

Larry Sherry was an American professional baseball player and coach who pitched in Major League Baseball as a right-handed reliever from 1958 to 1968, most prominently for the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Detroit Tigers. He was named Most Valuable Player of the 1959 World Series, when the Dodgers won their first championship since moving from Brooklyn two years earlier. After his playing career he managed in the minor leagues and later served as a major league coach for the Pittsburgh Pirates and the California Angels. He was born in 1935 and died in 2006.