Bob Turley Awards

What awards did Bob Turley win? This page lists every known baseball award won by Bob Turley in chronological order. Click the award name and up comes a comprehensive history of that award along with every winner of that particular baseball award.

"He (Bob Turley) was no herky-jerky tangle of arms and legs like Dizzy Dean or Cleveland's fireballing Bob Feller, with whose fastball his was sometimes compared. Like the great Walter Johnson, he pitched with practically no windup, and had a remarkably smooth delivery for his 6-foot-2, 215-pound frame. He had a curve, a slider and a change-up, but the fastball was his magic. To a batter's naked, unflinching eye, it was an intimidating marvel to behold: the ball perfectly hidden as Turley looked in for the sign, paused to inspect the crowd, and let fly — an incoming rocket, a white blur barely visible for just over four-tenths of a second, and then — smack! — gone into the catcher’s mitt. 'Man!' Roy Campanella, the Brooklyn Dodgers’ catcher, exclaimed after Turley struck him out three times in succession in a 1956 game. 'When you see me take three swings at three fastballs and not even foul tip one, the fellow throwing 'em must have something. Maybe he was using a little gun to fire that ball up there.'" - Sportswriter Robert D. McFadden in The New York Times (03/30/2013, 'Bob Turley, Pitcher With a Blazing Fastball, Dies at 82', Source)

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Bob Turley



"Bullet Bob" Turley Autograph on a 1954 Topps Archive (#85)
 

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Birth Name:   Robert Lee Turley
Nickname:   Bob or Bullet Bob
Born On:   09-19-1930  (Virgo)
Place of Birth Data Born In:   Troy, Illinois
Year of Death Data Died On:   03-30-2013
Place of Death Data Died In:   Atlanta, Georgia
Cemetery:   Cremated
High School:   Central High School (East St. Louis, IL)
College:   None Attended
Batting Stances Chart Bats:   Right   Throwing Arms Chart Throws:   Right
Player Height Chart Height:   6-02   Player Weight Chart Weight:   215
First Game:   09-29-1951 (Age 21)
Last Game:   09-21-1963
Draft:   Not Applicable
Bob Turley

Awards

1958 Cy Young Award
1958 Hickok Belt
1958 Sporting News Major League Player of the Year Award
1958 Sporting News Pitcher of the Year Award
1958 World Series Most Valuable Player Award


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