Eddie Lopat (Baseball. Born, New York, NY, June 21, 1918; died, Darien, CT, June 15, 1992.) At the heart of the pitching staff for the Yankees team that won five straight World Series (1949-53) was lefthander Edmund Walter Lopatynski. Lopat was the ideal pitcher to drop between hard-throwing righthanders Allie Reynolds and Vic Raschi. He […]
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