Larry Sherry: former World Series MVP recalls his career in the majors: Dodgers reliever won two games and saved two in Los Angeles' six-game Fall Classic victory over the White Sox in 1959

Baseball Digest, Nov, 2005 by Larry Bortstein

The White Sox didn't score again in the succeeding five-plus innings and the Dodgers added another run for a 9-3 triumph, giving Sherry his second win and the Dodgers the championship.

"Nowadays they probably wouldn't let a relief pitcher throw so many innings, and pitch in so many games, unless it was just for a batter or two," Sherry said. "It's all about pitch counts."

Sherry remained a Dodger until 1964, when he was traded to Detroit. The Tigers dealt him to Houston in the summer of 1967. He ended his ll-year major league career in 1968 as a member of the California Angels and retired as a player with a 53-44 record and a 3.67 ERA.

After the Angels released him on July 7, he spent the rest of the 1968 season as the pitching coach for the Seattle Rainiers in the Pacific Coast League.

He made it back to the majors as a pitching coach during the 1977 and 1978 seasons with the Pittsburgh Pirates. From 1979 to 1980 Sherry was a coach with the California Angels.

While maintaining his interest in baseball, Larry spends as many days as he can on the golf course. He's battled back from recent health problems and enjoys life with his wife, Sally, whom he met while he pitched for the Dodger farm club in Pueblo, Colorado in 1957.

The Sherrys have a son, Scott, and a daughter, Suzanne. Big brother Norm, the catcher, lives a few miles further south in Del Mar, California.

DID YOU KNOW ... that since the World Series MVP was first presented in 1955, only four relief pitchers have won the award? Bullpen specialists who captured the honor are Larry Sherry, Dodgers (1959), Rollie Fingers, A's (1974), John Wetteland, Yankees (1996) and Mariano Rivera, Yankees (1999).