Bud daley biography

October 9, 1961. Game Five of the World Series, at Cincinnati’s Crosley Field. All that separated the New York Yankees from another championship was outlasting the Cincinnati Reds.

New York scored five runs in the top of the first, chasing Reds starter Joey Jay. A home run by Roger Maris in the top of the second gave the Yankees a 6-0 cushion. But the Reds were not deterred.

Bud daley biography

New York starter Ralph Terry gave up a pair of singles in the third and Frank Robinson, author of 37 home runs during the regular season, soon to be named the National League’s Most Valuable Player, connected for a three-run homer to right-center.

Suddenly it was 6-3 and Terry’s afternoon was done. It would now be up to left-handed reliever Bud Daley to hold back the Reds.

Daley had come to the Yankees from the Kansas City Athletics on June 14 in exchange for pitcher Art Ditmar and first baseman Deron Johnson.

(It was the 17th deal between the Yankees and Athletics since 1955.) Daley had made his W