Wikipedia - "Edward Charles 'Whitey' Ford (born October 21, 1928) is an American former Major League Baseball pitcher who spent his entire 16-year career with the New York Yankees. He was voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1974. Ford was a native of the Astoria neighborhood of Queens, located in New York City. By the Triborough Bridge, it was a few miles from Yankee Stadium in the Bronx. Ford graduated from Aviation High School in nearby Sunnyside, Queens. Ford was signed by the New York Yankees as an amateur free agent in 1947, and played his entire career with them. He was nicknamed 'Whitey' while in the minor leagues for his light blond hair."
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SI: July 24, 1961, Whitey Throws For 30
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