After earning the Rookie of the Year Award, leading the league in strikeouts, and being named to the All Star game, Herb Score looked like a star. The next year in '56 he was even better...he again led the AL in Ks, was an All Star and 20-game winner. The 23-year old seemed destined for superstardom.
Then he got hit between his nose and right eye by a screaming line drive off the bat of Yankee SS Gil McDougald. He was never the same.
Here is a get-well letter to Score written by Stan Musial just eight days after the accident. A neat side note is that the same day he wrote the letter, Musial tied Cap Anson for 6th on the All Time doubles list.
I just put the letter up on
Herb Score's page on the CooperstownExpert website, and also on
Stan Musial's page. The two pages have a lot of interesting stuff on them.
Thanks for looking at my newest addition.