Herb Score
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Score in 1955
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Born: June 7, 1933 Rosedale, New York |
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Died: November 11, 2008 (aged 75) Rocky River, Ohio |
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| MLB debut | |||
| April 15, 1955, for the Cleveland Indians | |||
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| May 4, 1962, for the Chicago White Sox | |||
| MLB statistics | |||
| Win–loss record | 55–46 | ||
| Earned run average | 3.36 | ||
| Strikeouts | 837 | ||
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Herbert Jude Score (June 7, 1933 – November 11, 2008) was an American Major League Baseball (MLB) pitcher and announcer. He pitched for the Cleveland Indians and Chicago White Sox from 1955 through 1962. He was television and radio broadcaster for the Cleveland Indians from 1964–1997. Score was inducted into the Cleveland Indians Hall of Fame in 2006.
Herb Score was born in Rosedale New York in 1933. At 3, he was run over by a truck and later had rheumatic fever. As a teenager, he starting playing basketball and baseball at Holy Name of Mary School until he moved with his family to Lake Worth, Florida. In 1952, he threw six no-hitters for the Lake Worth Community High School baseball team, when the school won its only state baseball championship.
On June 7, 1952, his 19th birthday, he signed a baseball contract with the Cleveland Indians. He was sent to Indianapolis of the American Association where he made 10 pitching starts. In 1953, he moved to Cleveland's Class A affiliate, Reading (Pennsylvania) of the Eastern League. There he met and became lifetime friends with future outfielder Rocky Colavito from the Bronx, New York. For the 1954 season, both were promoted to Triple-A Indianapolis. Score was named The Sporting News Minor League Player of the Year and began to be referred to as "left-handed Bob Feller".
In 1955, Score came up to the Major Leagues (with Colavito) as a rookie with the Cleveland Indians at the age of 21. He quickly became one of the top power pitchers in the American League, no small feat on a team that still included Bob Feller, Bob Lemon and other top pitchers, going 16–10 with a 2.85 Earned run average (ERA) in his first year. He appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated magazine on May 30, 1955. Score struck out 245 batters in 1955, a Major League rookie record that stood until 1984, when it was topped by Dwight Gooden (Score, Gooden, Grover Cleveland Alexander, Don Sutton, Gary Nolan, Kerry Wood, Mark Langston, and Hideo Nomo were the only eight rookie pitchers to top 200 strikeouts in the 20th century). It was the first time in MLB history a regular starting pitcher averaged over one strikeout per inning.
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