Whitey Ford

Whitey Ford, nicknamed the Chairman of the Board, was an American pitcher who spent his entire 16-year Major League Baseball career with the New York Yankees, from his 1950 debut to his retirement in 1967, apart from two years in the United States Army during the Korean War. A ten-time All-Star and six-time World Series champion, he won both the Cy Young Award and the World Series Most Valuable Player Award in 1961 and set World Series pitching records that include 33 consecutive scoreless innings and 10 wins. The Yankees retired his number 16 in 1974, the year he was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. He was born in Manhattan, raised in Astoria, Queens, and died in 2020.