Yankeeography

Whitey Ford (3x4)

Air date: Jul 01, 2004

Edward "Whitey" Ford is a former Major League Baseball pitcher who spent his entire 18-year career with the New York Yankees. Ford won 236 games for New York (career 236-106), still a franchise record. Ford's 2.75 earned run average is the lowest among starting pitchers whose careers began after the advent of the Live Ball Era in 1920. He was voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1974.