Tom Metcalf

Pitcher Tom Metcalf came from a small town in central Wisconsin but got to fulfill the dreams of his childhood when he spent two months in America’s largest city as a member of the New York Yankees in 1963. The righty’s major-league career was limited to eight appearances on the mound that season, in which the Yankees finished first in the American League but were swept in four games in the World Series by the Los Angeles Dodgers.

Metcalf was on the postseason roster but did not play in the Series and never appeared in another regular-season big-league game.

Thomas John Metcalf was born on July 16, 1940, to Rounds and Ruth Metcalf, who lived in tiny Amherst, Wisconsin, population 611 according to the 1940 census. Infant Thomas became child number three, following brothers Michael and James into the Metcalf clan. Brother Bill would be born a few years later to give the family a roster of four boys.

The Metcalf family moved to nearby Wisconsin Rapids in 1949, when Tom was 9 years old. He played baseball, basketball, and football at Lincoln High School and earned All-Wisconsin Valley Conference honors for all three sports his senior year, and for baseball and basketball in his junior year.

During his senior year (1957-58), playing as an offensive back, Metcalf led the Lincoln High Red Raiders football team to a 13-12 win over the P.J. Jacobs Panthers of Stevens Point in the annual battle for the Ol’ River Jug. Lincoln had not won the trophy since 1948, but “took back the old crock in a momentous struggle on the Witter Field turf Friday night.”1 The Stevens Point quarterback was freshman Rick Reichardt, who went on to play for four teams in an 11-year big-league baseball career.

After the football season, Metcalf led the basketball team in scoring and was named by the Associated Press to the Wisconsin All-State Honorable Mention squad for the 1957-58 campaign.2

Then came the time for his best sport, baseball. In May, in perhaps two of his best performances, he first pitched a no-hitter against Stevens Point in May, striking out 12 batters,3 then four days later took a tough-luck loss in the Wisconsin Valley Conference title game, dropping a 1-0 decision to the Merrill Bluejays. Metcalf struck out 10 and gave up an unearned run in the defeat. It was his only loss on his home field during his high-school career.4

Metcalf was honored during Lincoln High’s Senior Recognition Night, and expressed to the audience his views on athletics and their value to participants. He received the Hagerstrom-Rude Post American Legion award for senior athletic excellence.5

After Lincoln’s baseball season ended, Metcalf played for the National Guards in the Wood County Baseball League. He went 5-2 in seven games, including a 20-strikeout effort in one contest.6

In the fall of 1958, Metcalf made his way to Evanston, Illinois, to attend Northwestern University. Although he had a baseball scholarship, he also played on the Wildcat freshman basketball team after varsity coach Bill Rohr saw him playing and asked him to play on the freshman team.7

Freshman basketball coach Harland Knosher called Metcalf “a pleasant surprise” and termed him one of the best natural athletes he had seen.8 Metcalf, who stood 6-feet-2, impressed Knosher “with his fine natural ability.”9 At the time, freshmen were ineligible for varsity action, so they played mostly intramural games or scrimmaged with the varsity.

After the school year ended, Metcalf returned home and played amateur ball for another season (1959) in the Wood County Baseball League, this time as a member of the Wisconsin Rapids Lumberjacks. The team was sponsored by Rounds Metcalf’s Rapids Lumber and Supply Company and ran through its opponents like a buzz saw, battling to a 13-1 season and a state tournament berth. The team won four games in the Class B Wisconsin Baseball Association tourney to take that title before Metcalf led the team to an 8-4 victory over Class A winner Soldiers Grove in mid-September.10

After returning to Northwestern for his sophomore year, Metcalf got into a few varsity basketball games as the Wildcats stumbled to a mark of 11 wins and 12 losses. That season was the last of Metcalf’s collegiate hoops career.

“They had asked me back my sophomore year (but) I played sparingly,” Metcalf recalled. “It got to be tough because in the winter the baseball team worked out in McGaw Hall just before basketball practice. Lots of hours between the two and I was wiped out. (I) kind of got tired of it.”11

In the first few months of the fall semester, Metcalf had two sports and something else on his mind, at least for a while.

“There were two guys in our fraternity that were tremendous musicians, and they were practicing with this girl singer in our lounge where we had a grand piano,” he recalled. “They played at various nightspots in the Chicago area, so they were practicing. Scott Smith, the piano player, came up and said, ‘Ann-Margret wants to know if you would be interested in giving her a call.’”12

“My mother and dad came down to visit me that winter and my mother, who was a huge Chicago Sun-Times reader, asked me about this girl, Ann-Margret, that was being written up in the columns by Irv Kupcinet. She asked if that was the girl I was dating. I said yes. So, she said, ‘I would like to go see her sing.’”13

“So we went out to this nightclub where she was entertaining and I was sitting at the table with my folks,” recalled Metcalf. “And then she came and sat down at our table and started visiting with my mom and dad. In the meantime, I was kind of gawking around and my mom says, ‘Tom, I’m trying to get your attention.’”

Without skipping a beat, Ann-Margret said, “Mrs. Metcalf, I’ve been trying to get his attention for weeks.’”

“Believe it or not, I kind of lost interest (in her),” said Metcalf later with a chuckle.14 The Swedish stunner would go on to be a huge star in Hollywood.

A couple of months later, Metcalf turned in his shoes and sneakers for a pair of spikes and a glove.

The Northwestern varsity baseball coach was Freddie Lindstrom, a star player with the New York Giants and three other teams in the 1920s and 1930s, who was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1976. “Lindstrom recruited me to come to Northwestern,” recalled Metcalf. “And I still think it may have been that Lindstrom was a friend of Yankee scout Art Stewart, who maybe didn’t want to sign me yet, but wanted to keep an eye on me (through Lindstrom).”15 

The right-hander was off to a good start, fashioning a record of six wins and one loss, when disaster struck. Before a game at Indiana on May 27, Metcalf was struck in the right eye by a foul ball glancing off the batting cage during practice. He was kept in the Indiana infirmary overnight for observation.16

Metcalf’s cheek had been split open – good for 12 stitches – and his eyeball was injured. He woke up with his eye completely bandaged. After a week in the hospital, John Alexander, a Wisconsin Rapids-area paper industry magnate, flew Metcalf’s father to Indiana to pick him up.

“I never touched a book that summer, but took my finals and flunked a religion course, dropping my GPA to 1.99,” said Metcalf. That made him scholastically ineligible and while he was sitting out the fall 1960 quarter, the pro scouts started calling.17

Fast forward to mid-March 1961.

While Metcalf was discussing bonus terms with a Cincinnati scout in his living room, a Chicago White Sox scout was waiting in the hall. Then the phone rang – it was Art Stewart from the Yankees.18 Yes, the Yankees outbid the Reds and the White Sox, with what Metcalf call to this day, “a satisfactory five-figure bonus.”19

After Stewart and Metcalf came to terms, he had a special request: Tell the press you signed for double the actual bonus. The rationale was, of course, to make it look as if the Yankees were very generous, or perhaps that they couldn’t be outbid for players.

Tom’s mother, who was in the room at the time, firmly said, “Tell the papers it was a satisfactory five-figure bonus. We’re not going to put anything false in the newspaper.”20 

“My biggest disappointment was that the Milwaukee Braves never contacted me,” commented Metcalf, referring to the “hometown” big-league team. “I really wanted to play for them.”21

Metcalf was told to report to the Yankees’ Class-A camp in Bartow, Florida. He didn’t have spikes or a glove because he had left them at Northwestern. Art Stewart said, “Don’t worry about that, they’ll take care of you.”

When the rookie got to Florida, he found out that wasn’t exactly true. Instead of having equipment on hand for him, camp director Jim Gleeson sent Metcalf to a hardware store in downtown Bartow.

“I ended up buying a Japanese glove and a cheap-ass pair of spikes,” Metcalf recalled with a laugh. “I go back in the afternoon and boy, did I get a ribbing from the players.”

After about a week, Metcalf was sent to St. Petersburg of the Class-D Florida State League. He was immediately inserted into the starting rotation and did not disappoint. He pitched a complete-game four-hitter but suffered a tough-luck 2-1 loss on April 21.22

Five days later, Metcalf picked up his first professional win, striking out eight and walking two as he evened his record at 1-1.23 But then he ran into more tough luck in his next eight starts, losing five of them despite pitching to a 3.40 ERA during that span.

“He’s one of our best prospects,” said manager Bob Bauer. “He certainly has a future with the Yankees.”24

Then, after splitting his next two decisions, Metcalf ran off six consecutive victories in eight starts, with two no-decisions. Not including two relief appearances that were mixed in, the lanky right-hander tossed 26 straight scoreless innings in a span of four starts from June 26 through July 12.

He didn’t fare as well in August, winning two of three with a trio of no-decisions. Metcalf did pitch six no-hit innings on August 1 against Sarasota before getting roughed up in the seventh for five runs, but he did earn the win in that contest.25

Metcalf’s final stats for the season showed a record of nine wins and eight losses, with an ERA of 3.26. He pitched 12 complete games, including four shutouts.

The former high-school basketball star stayed in shape over the winter, playing in a YMCA league in Wisconsin Rapids. He also attended UW-Stevens Point during the winter semester.

Much to Metcalf’s surprise, the Yankees decided to switch his role to relief for the 1962 campaign and assigned him to Augusta (Georgia) of the Class-A South Atlantic League.

“I had a pretty good year in ‘D’ ball as a starter (in 1961),” said Metcalf later. “Manager Ernie White said the Yankees wanted me to be a reliever. I said okay, because I figured it would give me a quicker path to the big leagues.”

Metcalf’s best pitch was a big roundhouse curve, but then old Phillies reliever Jim Konstanty – who’d just returned to baseball as a minor-league pitching coach for the Yankees – visited the team.

Konstanty wanted Metcalf to throw a smaller curve while White wanted the big-breaking “hammer.” One time in a game, Metcalf threw the smaller breaking pitch and White immediately called time and ran to the mound.

“You’ll be riding the first train back to Whiskey Rapids or wherever the hell you’re from if you don’t go to the hammer on the next pitch,” White told him. “I’ll still be here managing this team, even if you’re not on it.”

Needless to say, Metcalf went back to the hammer.

Around midseason, Metcalf was getting noticed. A Charlotte sportswriter commented that “Tom Metcalf of Augusta has developed into one of the league’s best reliefers and appears to have made successful the jump from Class D to A.”26

Although Augusta struggled, finishing with a record of 57-83, Metcalf led the team with 14 wins in 52 appearances, and posted the second-best ERA (2.56) with pitchers who threw 100 innings or more.

In the offseason, Metcalf enlisted in the Army’s reserve program and did a six-month stint during which he was stationed at Fort Sam Houston near San Antonio, Texas.27 On the surface, it seemed like that plan would jibe with his baseball career.

But then the Yankees invited Metcalf to the club’s advanced training camp, scheduled to begin on February 11. The problem? Metcalf was not scheduled for discharge until March 15.

The commanding general at Fort Houston insisted that Metcalf would not have completed his basic training by February 11. Nonetheless, he gave tentative approval for discharge “on or about March 1.”28

Metcalf did finagle the discharge in early March and reported to the Yankees camp, where he stayed for only a short time before being sent to New York’s minor-league camp in Hollywood, Florida. There he joined his team for 1963, the Triple-A Richmond Virginians.29

Ernie White was by then the New York Mets’ pitching coach and sang Metcalf’s praises, telling a reporter, “He has a great overhand curve and he’s quick.”30

Metcalf pitched well in the spring exhibition games and Richmond manager Preston Gómez

was keeping an eye on him. “He has a good arm,” said Gómez.31

The 22-year-old started the season strong, allowing no earned runs in his first five outings, covering nine innings. In his first 34⅓ innings – through June 9 – he allowed only two earned runs in 22 appearances for a microscopic ERA of 0.52. He notched five wins and, unofficially, five saves during his team’s first 48 games.32

Then the warm Richmond summer (average high 86 degrees Fahrenheit) might have gotten to Metcalf, who had said two months earlier: “I like to pitch in this cold weather. Wish we could have it all season.”33 Between June 10 and June 24, Metcalf gave up six earned runs in six outings. In the next 14 days, he got back into rhythm, keeping his opponents off the scoreboard in six of seven relief appearances.

After Independence Day, things got kind of ugly. Metcalf gave up 10 earned runs in 10 innings as July came to an end. At that point, his record was 9-5, and his ERA had increased to 2.69. But then the right-hander got some good news: He was being called up to the Yankees.

Not everyone thought it was a good idea. A Richmond columnist wondered why the Yankees would call up Metcalf “at a time when the early season ‘Golden Boy’ of the Virginians’ bull pen was being hit hard every time he relieved a faltering Vee pitcher.”34

But up to New York he went. After getting his bearings for a few days in the bullpen, Metcalf got the call in the eighth inning on August 4 for his major-league debut in Yankee Stadium against the Baltimore Orioles. He entered the game with the Yankees trailing 4-2, and promptly allowed a leadoff double to Russ Snyder; after he got Boog Powell on a fly ball to center, John Orsino crushed a home run to left. Though shaken, the rookie still retired Jim Gentile and Brooks Robinson to end the inning.

In the ninth, Jerry Adair cracked a one-out double and was knocked in by pitcher Dick Hall before Snyder grounded into a double play. The Yankees lost 7-2.

Metcalf was getting antsy because he felt he would be sitting too much, so he went to manager Ralph Houk with a request. “I asked him to send me back to Triple A because I wanted to pitch,” he recalled.

“I brought you up here and I want you on this roster,” replied the hard-nosed Houk, known as The Major. “I’m going to work and try to get you out there. I’m not sending you down.”35

Metcalf sat in the bullpen for the next few days but got a chance in a blowout loss on August 14 when he came into a 14-5 game in Boston. He pitched a perfect eighth, giving him some confidence.

Three days later, Houk brought Metcalf into a game when the Yankees trailed to the White Sox, 2-0, in the eighth inning. Although Metcalf gave up two hits, he got a double play and a groundout to get out of the inning.

“You make mistakes, and guys turn them into a double play,” noted Metcalf. “Especially that Yankees infield.”36

A few days later, Metcalf pitched two perfect innings against Cleveland in Yankee Stadium in a 7-4 loss.

Then, continuing his “good game, bad game” pattern, Metcalf got into trouble on September 1. Even so, he earned his first and only big-league win in a 5-4 decision in Baltimore. He pitched a scoreless sixth but was touched up for a run on two hits in the seventh. The Yankees then trailed, 4-1, but rallied with four runs in the top of the eighth.

Two days later in Detroit, the rookie right-hander held the Tigers at bay in the seventh and eighth innings, after which the Yankees scored twice to tie the contest, 2-2. But the Yankees came out on the short end of a 3-2 game that lasted 15 innings.

The next to last game of Metcalf’s big-league career was a doozy. With the Yankees trailing Detroit 6-3, he entered the game in the top of the fifth inning. He allowed a walk and a hit but got out of the inning unscathed. The Yankees scored eight runs in the bottom half to take an 11-6 lead, which was the final score.

Wrote Joe Trimble in the New York Daily News, “Metcalf actually was the pitcher of record, when the big inning erased a 6-3 Detroit edge, but the official scorer gave credit to Hal] Reniff. The scoring rules permit this elasticity of choice in a flappy game such as this.”37

The Wisconsin star sat nearly two weeks before getting his last outing. He finished his season with a pair of scoreless innings against the Kansas City Athletics on September 20, ending with a very respectable ERA of 2.77.

In eight relief appearances, Metcalf tossed 13 innings and allowed four earned runs, striking out three and walking three. His record was 1-0.

The 1963 World Series started four days after the regular season ended, and it took just four games for the Los Angeles Dodgers to claim the crown. Metcalf did not play in the Series – four other pitchers handled relief chores.

During the Series games in Los Angeles, Metcalf got in touch with Ann-Margret’s agent and was able to get the star’s phone number.

After a few minutes of small talk, the pitcher said, “I have some tickets if you want to go to a game; you can be my guest. And if we can get together, I’ll have dinner with you.”

“Well, I really can’t,” said Ann-Margret. “I’m dating someone.”

“Who?” asked Metcalf.

“Elvis.”

“Elvis who?” joked Metcalf.

Ann-Margret chuckled and said, “Okay, let’s stop the joking.”

That was the last time Metcalf had any interactions with the singer/actress.

A couple of weeks later, Metcalf, who had been brought up in early August, received a check for $3,149.72, two-fifths of the Yankee players’ full shares.38

Metcalf was feted by his hometown with a Tom Metcalf Day program on January 16, 1964. The event was arranged by the Amherst Lions Club.39

Hopes were high that Metcalf would earn a spot on the Opening Day roster in 1964. New Yankees manager Yogi Berra (who’d retired as a player) even sent a letter to be read at the Tom Metcalf Day program, which in part said, “We look for big things from Tom, and he is one of the reasons the Yankees are optimistic about the future. This is the first of many thrills he will enjoy in 1964.”40

Ralph Houk – who moved up to the front office as general manager in the offseason – also praised Metcalf in a telegram to the Lions: “We of the New York Yankees are proud he is with our organization. It is ball players of his high standards of living and ability that make the Yankees the successful team they are.”41

Alas, Berra and Metcalf ran afoul of each other in the spring. Although the manager stated in early April that Metcalf was part of the bullpen plan, he sent the pitcher down to Richmond despite a 0.69 ERA in the exhibition season.42

Pete Mikkelsen and Metcalf were battling for the same spot in the bullpen. Berra chose Mikkelsen because he threw sinkers, while Metcalf was more of a fly-ball pitcher.

“Ralph Houk came up to me and said, ‘Tom, I’m not in favor of this deal, but Yogi has the right to choose his players. Go down and do the best you can, and I’ll try to get you back here.’”43 So Metcalf reported to Richmond, albeit a couple of days late, and started working on a sinkerball.

“And that’s when I ruined my arm,” he recalled.44

Metcalf pitched into early August and then was put on the disabled list. He appeared in 50 games and had a record of 3-7 with six saves, along with a rather high ERA of 4.29. At the end of the month, it was announced that Metcalf “probably” would be pitching in a winter instructional league in Florida, but he never did.45

Instead, the pitcher married Crystal Winston, a former Miss Richmond (1962), in October 1964. The two had met while working in Richmond the year before.

In 1965 spring training, Metcalf started one game against the Twins, allowing one hit and one earned run in three innings. “This is my first start in four years,” he noted.46 But after struggling in a relief outing a few days later, he was sent to the minor-league camp.47  

Metcalf began the season with Toledo and had some good and bad appearances in April, ending the month with an 0-1 record, one save, and an ERA of 2.35.

May was a different story. Metcalf was lit up on May 2, allowing 11 hits and 8 earned runs in 2⅓ innings against Rochester. He struggled in his next three outings before righting the ship in the last half of May, allowing only three hits in 7⅔ innings.

In late May, Metcalf was sent to Syracuse in exchange for infielder Bill Roman, who wanted to play nearer to his hometown of Detroit.48 In 13 appearances for the Mud Hens, Metcalf had an ERA in the high fours and a won-lost record of 1-1, with the one save.

He did okay with Syracuse in nine June outings, with one win and an ERA of 3.07. July was a different story, with an ERA of 5.14 in eight appearances and 14 innings, and a win and a save.

Metcalf pitched once more for Syracuse in early August before being sent back to Toledo. He ended the season with a record of 3-4, two saves, and an ERA of 5.61. He did not earn a big-league call-up but in September was ordered to report the following spring to the Yankees spring training camp in Fort Lauderdale.49

But in the same month the Yankees sold Metcalf’s contract to Toledo. He said he did not know whether he would be invited to spring training with the Yankees until he received his 1966 contract.50

Metcalf opened spring training at the minor-league camp in mid-March, but then was acquired by Cleveland’s affiliate in Indianapolis. He and Lou Vickery were supposed to report to the team in Sarasota, but Metcalf dropped Vickery off and drove back home to Wisconsin. Cleveland refused to complete the paperwork on the transaction, so Metcalf was technically still a Yankee farmhand.51

“I told Johnny Keane, ‘I’m going back to my room and packing my bags and I’m heading back to Wisconsin,’” remembered Metcalf.52 And just like that, his professional career was over.

“It was a tough decision,” Metcalf said. “But I have no regrets. I have had experiences in baseball that will never be repeated as long as I live. I wouldn’t trade those things for a million dollars.”53

Metcalf joined his father in the lumberyard business in Wisconsin Rapids until retirement. As of 2022 he and Crystal lived in the village of Port Edwards, which is adjacent to Wisconsin Rapids. They have two sons, Thomas Andrew (Andy) and Rob, who played Division I basketball at Virginia and Minnesota. An avid golfer, Metcalf still shoots regular rounds in the 80s at a local country club.

Acknowledgments

This biography was reviewed by Rory Costello and Len Levin and fact-checked by Ray Danner.

Sources

In addition to the sources shown in the Notes, the author used Baseball-Reference.com.

Photo credit: Courtesy of Tom Metcalf.

Notes

1 “Red Raiders Regain River Jug, 13-12,” Wisconsin Rapids (Wisconsin) Daily Tribune, October 26, 1957: 3.

2 Chuck Capaldo, “Zweifel, Gharrity, Hughbanks, Kimble, Powers Make All-State,” Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune, April 1, 1958: 6.

3 “Metcalf Hurls No-Hit Gem Against Point, 3-0,” Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune, May 28, 1958: 7.

4 “Merrill Beats Raiders, 1-0,” Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune, June 2, 1958: 6.

5 “Outstanding Lincoln High Seniors Get Recognition,” Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune, May 28, 1958: 3.

6 “Metcalf Fans 20 as National Guards Blast Sherry-Blenker,” Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune, August 11, 1958: 6.

7 Interview with Tom Metcalf, December 22, 2021 (hereafter Metcalf interview).

8 “Metcalf Earns Starting Spot on NU Frosh,” Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune, January 27, 1959: 7.

9 “Frosh Cagers Bid for Stardom; Combine Speed, Good Shooting,” Daily Northwestern, February 26, 1959: 1.

10 “Jacks Net ’59 State Baseball Bunting,” Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune, December 30, 1959: 8.

11 Metcalf interview.

12 Metcalf interview.

13 Metcalf interview.

14 Metcalf interview.

15 Metcalf interview.

16 “N.U. Wins, 10-6,” Chicago Tribune, May 28, 1960: 39.

17 Metcalf interview.

18 Don Lindstrom, “Sports Lookout,” Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune, March 27, 1961: 7.

19 Metcalf interview.

20 Metcalf interview.

21 Metcalf interview.

22 “Saints Lose Despite 4-Hit Pitching 2-1,” Tampa Bay Times, April 22, 1961: 24.

23 “Saints Trim Leesburg 7-1 to Take Over First,” Tampa Bay Times, April 27, 1961: 29.

24 “Wildcat Star Under Unlucky Star Here,” Tampa Bay Times, June 1, 1961: 33.

25 “Saints Capture 3rd Straight; Home Tonight,” Tampa Bay Times, August 2, 1961: 25.

26 Bob Myers, “Sally League Notebook,” Charlotte News, June 27, 1962: 24.

27 Stan Isle, “Over My Shoulder,” Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune, February 8, 1963: 6.

28 Isle, “Over My Shoulder.”

29 Laurence Leonard, “Virginians Open Drills; 23 Candidates Report,” Richmond News Leader, March 15, 1963: 1.

30 Laurence Leonard, “Sports,” Richmond News Leader, March 27, 1963: 26.

31 Shelley Rolfe, “Crackers Take Pair from Vees,” Richmond Times-Dispatch, March 31, 1963: 37.

32 Stan Isle, “Over My Shoulder,” Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune, May 18, 1963: 6 details early-season success. Statistics for 1963 season compiled using box scores from the Richmond Times-Dispatch and The Sporting News.

33 Bill Deekins, “Foul Dulls Virginians Win, Gibbs’ Best Showing of Year,” Richmond News Leader, April 19, 1963: 26.

34 Chauncey Durden, “Sportview,” Richmond Times-Dispatch, August 1, 1963: 18.

35 Metcalf interview.

36 Metcalf interview.

37 Joe Trimble, “Yanks’ 8-Run Fifth Smothers Tigers, 11-6; Rog Connects,” New York Daily News, September 8, 1963: 150.

38 “Series Takes Are Records,” Corpus Christi (Texas) Caller, October 17, 1963: 29.

39 Stan Isle, “Over My Shoulder,” Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune, November 1, 1963: 3.

40 “Amherst Star Honored,” Appleton Post-Crescent, January 21, 1964: B6.

41 “Amherst Star Honored.”

42 “Yanks Cut State Hurler Metcalf,” Oshkosh Daily Northwestern, April 9, 1964: 32.

43 Metcalf interview.

44 Metcalf interview.

45 Ted Findlay, “Broward to Field 3 Winter League Teams,” Miami Herald, August 29, 1964: 54.

46 Bob Bassine, “Top of the Morn,” Orlando Sentinel, March 16, 1965: 19.

47 “11 Yanks Sent to Hollywood,” Fort Lauderdale News, March 23, 1965: 8.

48 Bill Reddy, “Keeping Posted,” Syracuse Post-Standard, June 9, 1965: 18.

49 Joe Trimble, “Shortstop, 19, Among 5 to Join Yankees Soon,” New York Daily News, September 2, 1965: 351.

50 “Tom Metcalf’s Contract Sold to Toledo Club,” Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune, September 9, 1965: 7.

51 Max Greenwald, “Baseball Chatter,” Indianapolis Star, April 6, 1966: 28.

52 Metcalf interview.

53 Metcalf interview.