Indians Pitcher Herb Score, Dead
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Herb Score is the Cleveland Indians pitcher and the team’s former broadcaster who was injured in an accident way back, died in his home at Rocky River, Ohio. He was 75. Score’s career as the team’s pitcher started in 1955 and ended in 1959. He was awarded the American League Rookie of the Year in 1955 for going 16-10. He then went 20 to 9 the following year. He also made the All Star team, twice. But his wonderful career as a pitcher took a bad turn on the 7th of May, 1957. New York Yankees’ Gil MacDougald lined a ball off of Herb’s right eye. It broke his nose and his facial bones. Score was able to see again but he was never the same after that accident. He then became the broadcaster for the Indians from 1963 up to 1997, when he retired.