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He hit .297 as a rookie in 1957 and took the award with 23 of the 24 votes, playing five positions for a pennant winner. He was the Yankee shortstop for the next eight years, through six more pennants, and made three All-Star teams.

In the eighth inning of the seventh game of the 1960 World Series, with New York ahead 7-4, Bill Virdon hit a ground ball that took a bad hop off the Forbes Field infield and struck him in the throat. He went to a hospital; Pittsburgh scored five that inning and won the Series two innings later.

Nine seasons gave him 1,109 hits, 178 doubles, 57 home runs and a .266 average. A back and neck injury from an Army Reserve exercise ended him at twenty-nine. He then spent twenty-five years calling games for NBC, was as blunt on the air as anyone has been, and took the Ford Frick Award in 2009. No writers' ballot has listed him as a player.