Bing Crosby's Call Gets Vernon Law for Pirates
United Press International
Bing Crosby made a telephone call 12 years ago that helped the Pittsburgh Pirates take a one-game lead over the mighty New York Yankees yesterday in the 1960 World Series opener. 6-4.
The call was to the home of Vernon Law, who hurled the Pirates to the first game victory.
"Hello," said the man with the golden tonsils, "this is Bing Crosby. I'd just like you to know, Mrs. Law, that we'd like to have your son. Vernon pitch for the Pittsburgh Pirates."
Mrs. Law—mother of young Vernon Law—bubbled.
"I guess you'd have to say that Crosby's telephone call was the final straw in our family's decision that I'd sign with the Pirates," the rangy Law grinned as he played with a vagrant puppy along the third base line at Forbes Field. "It sure thrilled my mother."
Today the boot is on the other pedal extremity and it's the "Deacon" who is thrilling the Pirate management.
There was no idea in Law's mind when he signed with the Pirates that he'd ever pitch in the series.
"Out in Idaho, where I was raised, we only heard big league baseball on the radio," he said. "I was considered to be a much better football player and never really got seriously interested in baseball until the end of high school. Then the scouts started coming around, eight or ten of them,
and of course I got interested."
Law, a strapping six-foot, threeinch right-hander who hails from Meridan, a small town near Boise, had the Pirates in mind right from the first.
"In those days they had a pitching staff with a lot of age on it and I figured I'd have the best chance to get up to the big leagues with a team like that," he said soberly.
The theory paid off. Law, a quiet, blue-eyed man of Swedish and English extraction, served his apprenticeship at way stations like Santa Rosa, Davenport and New Orleans and then came up to the Pirates to stay in 1951. There were two years out for service and since 1954 this long-jawed 30-year-old with the pin-point control has been one of the Pirates' front line hurlers.
The "deacon," so called by his team mates because he is an ordained minister of the Morman Church and a tither, is typical of this young Pirate team.
"We learned to handle the pressure this season in winning the National League pennant," he asserts. "Certainly we have to respect the Yankees and their vast World Series experience. But we aren't afraid."
"I think we'll give a good account of ourselves."
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