1. Right arm

2. References

3. External links

• Cleveland Indians ({{baseball year|1955}}–{{baseball year|1957}})
• Kansas City Athletics ({{baseball year|1958}}–{{baseball year|1961}})
• New York Yankees ({{baseball year|1961}}–{{baseball year|1964}})

• 4× All-Star (1959–1960²)
• 2× World Series champion ({{wsy|1961}}, {{wsy|1962}})

Leavitt Leo "Bud" Daley (born October 7, 1932), is a former professional baseball player who pitched in the Major Leagues from 1955–1964.

Leavitt was his father's name. Leo was for St. Leo from his mother's Catholicism. He was called Bud because his mother was an only child and she always wanted a child like her cousin, Buddy Walker. As a player Daley made his home in Long Beach, California. He was successful in public relations and a skilled speaker. In the offseason he once appeared in seventy-two towns in six states.^[1]

Daley was a knuckleball pitcher.^[2] who threw curves of two different speeds.^[1] He became an All-Star pitcher in 1959 and 1960 for the Kansas City Athletics. During that two-year period, Daley won a total of 32 games, and was 3rd in the American League with 16 wins in 1960. In June 1961, he was traded by Kansas City to the New York Yankees, becoming an impact pitcher as the Yanks won the 1961 World Series over the Cincinnati Reds.

Daley was purchased by the Cleveland Indians from the Sacramento Solons of the Pacific Coast League on August 18, 1955. The purchase price was not revealed.^[2] Daley received offers from five other major league clubs. He signed with the Indians because of his friendship with Bob Lemon, whose children Daley used to babysit for.^[2]

He dropped his first major league start at Briggs Stadium in a 6-2 loss to the Detroit Tigers. Harvey Kuenn hit an 8th-inning home run in a game in which the Tigers reached Daley for nine of ten hits in the first six innings.^[3] Daley was optioned to the Indianapolis Indians on July 4, 1956.^[4] On September 7 he was one of 7 players recalled from the American Association farm team.^[5]

On March 31, 1958 Daley was traded, along with Gene Woodling and Dick Williams, to the Baltimore Orioles, for Larry Doby and Don Ferrarese.^[6]

On April 18 Daley was traded to the Athletics for pitcher Arnie Portocarrero.^[7]

Daley put together a 4-game win streak in 1959. On June 6 he beat the Orioles 5-1, for his 5th win of the season. He conceded five hits to Baltimore, and afterwards, had allowed only a single run in his previous four games.^[8] Casey Stengel selected Daley as one of seven pitchers

he picked for the American League All-Star team on July 2.^[9] Daley pitched a 5-hitter against the Orioles on July 21. The 8-1 win would have been a shutout except for a homer by Walt Dropo, which Daley gave up with two out in the 9th inning.^[10] Kansas City earned its 6th straight victory with a 3-0, 4-hitter, thrown by Daley against Boston, on July 25.^[11] For the 7th place Athletics Daley achieved a 16-13 record with a 3.17 ERA in 1959.^[1] On July 29 Daley was sidelined with an infected knee, which had hurt while sliding. His record was 11-6.^[12] He gained his 12th win against the Washington Senators with relief help from Tom Sturdivant.^[13] Daley concluded the 1959 season with a 16-13 record.^[14]

He was traded to the New York Yankees after being relegated to the Kansas City bullpen during the 1961 season. The move impaired his effectiveness as a pitcher. Frank Lane was responsible for trading Daley to the Athletics and then to the Yankees.^[2]

Right arm

Daley's right arm is one inch shorter than his left, and he is unable to fully straighten it.^[18][19] It is often rumoured that Daley was born naturally right-handed but developed polio as a child, "withering" his right arm. In fact Daley was born left-handed and his right arm and side are healthy. He did suffer temporary paralysis to his right arm after birth due to forceps pinching a nerve. However, massage and exercise restored the limb to health. Daley's mother, Mrs. E.G. Petzoldt, once said, "No one wanted a baby more than I did. But Buddy was so crippled I didn't want him to live." Although he could barely raise it high enough to comb his hair,^[20] Daley himself says that he has been living with it all his life without feeling handicapped a bit.^[19] In fact, Daley served as a fifth infielder, was competitive as a batter, shot golf in the low 80s, and was a proficient fisherman.^[1]

References

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• Baseball Almanac

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