A pitcher who made four All-Star teams with the Kansas City A's and won two World Series with the New York Yankees has passed away.
Bud Daley, whose relief appearance in Game 5 of the 1961 World Series boosted the New York Yankees to a series-clinching victory over the Cincinnati Reds, died on Tuesday, the Yankees announced. He was 92.During a 10-year major league career Daley played for the Cleveland Indians, Kansas City Athletics and the Yankees.
He never played in an organized baseball game until he got to Woodrow Wilson High School in Long Beach, yet by his senior year he was a standout in the outfield and on the pitcher's mound .Scouted by 14 of the 16 major-league teams. Daley chose to sign with the Cleveland Indians because Indians pitcher Bob Lemon, a future Hall of Famer, also graduated from Wilson High.
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