"It's a dilly, all right. The ball really spins around that curve, like a pill on a roulette wheel. You can't charge 'em, or they'll get past you for a home run."
— 1960 World Series

January 1, 1970

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Gino Cimoli, on Yankee Stadium's treacherous, curving left field side wall, as quoted in "Pirates Bank On Mizell to Beat Yanks' Ford Today (Cont.)" by Edward Prell, in The Chicago Tribune (Saturday, October 8, 1960), PART 2—PAGE 4