On June 14 he injured the elbow again and made only seven more appearances that year and finished with a 2-3 record.ġ959 saw Score back to his old form with a 9-5 mark by mid-season. He pitched well in April but in early May in Washington he tore a tendon in his left elbow and sat idle for over a month. Herb Score was released from the hospital on May 28 but still had vision problems and did not play any further in 1957.ġ958 opened with Herb Score attending Spring Training with the Indians in Tucson feeling well and ready to pitch. Score suffered a broken nose, lacerated right eyelid, damage to his right cheekbone and right eye. On Score was struck in the face with a line drive off the bat of Yankee shortstop Gil McDougald. In the off season Boston General Manager Joe Cronin offered Cleveland General Manager Hank Greenberg a Million Dollars for Herb Score but Greenberg refused the offer. But the team finished second again to the Yankees as they had in 1955.ġ957 started as another good year for Score but adversity struck in May of that year. He made the American League All Star Team again and pitched one scoreless inning. He was the first pitcher in the modern era to strike out over 200 batters in his first two seasons in the league. He finished the season with a 16-10 record and a 2.85 ERA, and was named to the American League All Star Team but did not pitch in the game.ġ956 was another stellar year for Score finishing with a 20 win, 9 loss record led the league with 263 strikeouts, and led the team with a 2.53 ERA. He held that record till 1984 when Dwight Gooden of the Mets struck out 276 batters. He led both leagues with 245 strikeouts, breaking the rookie record of 227 set by the Phillies Grover Cleveland Alexander in 1911. He was named American Association’s Most Valuable Player, and Sporting News Minor League Player of the Year.ġ955 saw Score make the Major League Cleveland Indians roster and was named Sporting News Rookie of the Year in the American League. He produced a 22 win 5 loss record, gave up 140 hits in 251 innings, had a league low 2.62 Earned Run Average (ERA), set an American Association record 330 strikeouts, and gave up only 140 walks.
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While the parent club in Cleveland won a record 111 games and went to the World Series in ’54, Score set some records himself. In 1954 Herb, Rocky and their Reading manager Kerby Farrell moved up to Triple A Indianapolis. While off he completed his credits for Lake Worth High School and received his diploma. While shagging fly balls he landed on his pitching shoulder and separated his collar bone from the joint. At Reading his record was 7 and 3, giving up only 64 hits in 98 innings, but walking 126 batters. There he met his soon to be lifelong friend and roommate Rocky Colavito. In 1953 Score was sent to Class A Reading, PA in the Eastern League. He allowed only 37 hits in 62 innings, but walked 62.
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His first professional pitching was with Indianapolis of the American Association where he made 10 starts, with a 2 and 5 won-loss record. Herb and Cy signed his contract on Jwith a $60,000 bonus for signing. His pitching prowess soon spread far and wide and he was scouted by Cleveland Indians scout Cy Slapnicka. His mother and father separated and Herb and his mother moved to Lake Worth Florida. He threw six no-hitters for the Lake Worth Community High School baseball team and led the school to its only state baseball championship. He started playing baseball at Holy Name of Mary School in Rosedale as an outfielder but the team needed a pitcher and he was it. In high school he fractured his ankle playing basketball and, with cast still on, had an emergency appendectomy. A few years later he contracted rheumatic fever and was bed ridden for ten months. Doctors were afraid he would never walk again, but the bones settled back into place on their own. At age 3 he was run over by a truck that broke his legs below the pelvis. Score overcame adversity and injury from childhood to old age. He's best known as a talented Cleveland Indians pitcher and later a broadcaster. Herbert Jude Score was born Jin Rosedale, Queens, New York. Herb Score–A Story of Adversity Guest post by John Haas, Archivist, Ohio History Connection