The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Cond Nast. He was almost alone now with his problema baseball castawayand he had reached the point where he was willing to try practically anything. Its hard. My first big-league autograph was Hank Majeski., Blass grew up into an athletea good sandlot football player, a second-team All-State Class B basketball star, but most of all a pitcher, like his father. Im a surface reactor. The big hit of the game was a triple to left center by the White Sox catcher, David Blass, who is ten years old. Karen Lamb Steve Blass/. (He is said to have once thrown twenty-seven consecutive balls in a spring-training game.) All this was said with an air of summing up, of finality, but at other times that evening I noticed that it seemed difficult for Blass to talk about his baseball career as a thing of the past; now and then he slipped into the present tenseas if it were still going on. PITTSBURGH . 1:52. His hunched, airborne posture makes him look like a man who has just made a running jump over a sizable objecta kitchen table, say. See Photos. Because of Steve, the clubhouse was never completely silent, even after a loss. Another Pirate said, Steve was about ninety per cent of the good feeling on this club. The fastball is my best pitch, but Id get right to the top of my delivery and then something would take over, and Id know even before I released the ball that it wasnt going to be in the strike zone. There should be a feeling of Lets go! I think most progress in baseball comes from enjoying it and then wanting to extend yourself a little, wanting it to become more. Karen Blass. Now, after ball one, Ill give him a medium-to-slow curveball and try to get it over the platejust throw it for a strike., Now I throw him a real slow curveballa regular rainbow. At contract-renewal time, earned-run averages below 3.30 are invariably mentioned by pitchers; an E.R.A. Pretty soon youre trying so hard that you cant function., I ventured to repeat Nellie Kings guesses about the mystery to Steve Blass and asked him what he thought. Steve Blass, noticing my confusion, explained that, in order to avert a parade of walked batters in these games, any strike thrown by a pitcher was considered to have wiped out the balls he had already delivered to the same batter; a strike on the 30 count reconverted things to 01. Tony Perez was the next batter. Douglas D Blass and Randall Cheney are also associated with this address. On any level, baseball is a tough game if it isnt really fun, Blass said. They have also lived in Santa Barbara, CA and Santa Monica, CA. When Ted Simmons stood in for the visitors, Blass said, Hes always hit me pretty good. The best season-long earned-run average of the modern baseball era was Bob Gibsons 1.12 mark, set in 1968. Exploring a pitching career that began with a complete-game victory over Hall of Famer Don Drysdale in 1964 and ended when he could no longer control his pitches, this book details the life of Pittsburgh Pirates great, Steve Blass. in physical education at Syracuse. It was a horrendous disappointment for the Pittsburgh Pirates and their fans, for which no blame at all could be attached to Blass. and an M.A. Blass knew that his case was desperate. The game went well for him. He won nineteen games for the Pirates and lost only eight, posting an earned-run average of 2.48sixth-best in the National Leagueand being selected for the N.L. Sunday will be Steve Blass' day, too, even if there's not a pregame ceremony like Saturday. In the old days, he used to get mad at himself after a bad showing, and sometimes he threw things around in the clubhouse. This insider's view of the humorous and bizarre journey of . Blass tries to pass off the experience lightly (he is apparently incapable of self-pity) but one can guess what must have been required of him to summon up even a scrap of the kind of hope and aggressive self-confidence that are prerequisites, at every level, of a successful athletic performance. Then, in late February, 1974, Blass reported to Bradenton with the other Pirate pitchers and catchers. See full bio Born: He agreed at once. It all made for looseness and togetherness. As the curtain falls on the Pittsburgh Pirates 2019 season, so, too, does the 60-year affiliation between the Pirates and Steve Blass draw to a close. They can bury you before you even get started. Steve Blass was born on April 18, 1942 in Canaan, Connecticut, USA. Karen Blass, 79. Roberto Clemente, of course, is dead; he was killed on December 31, 1972, in Puerto Rico, in the crash of a plane he had chartered to carry emergency relief supplies to the victims of an earthquake in Nicaragua. Steve had a lot of guts to stay out there as long as he did. He was a different man out there., Blass walked eight men in the fourth inning and gave up eight runs. Oh, no, he said. He was, in short, an extremely successful and useful big-league pitcher, and was understandably enjoying his work. Im not bitter about this. aren is a top-producing agent at Beacham and Company Realtors and has been selling . 'The Mooncatcher's Rescue' is out now, published by Walker Books, illustrated by Lia Visirin. The Pirates had scored again in the eighth, but the Orioles had responded with a run of their own and had brought the tying run around to third base before Blass shut them off once and for all. Being good up here is so toughpeople have no idea. He and Karen Lamb were married in the fall of 1963, and they went to the Dominican Republic that winter, where Steve played for the Cibaeas Eagles and began working on a slider. Karen Lamb March 18, 1948 - December 7, 2020 Karen Lamb was born on March 18, 1948 and passed away on December 7, 2020 and is under the care of Casdorph & Curry Funeral Home. I dont think Ill ever forget it. See Photos. He suddenly laughed. The gamethe White Sox vs. the Orioleswas a close, 31 affair, in which the winning White Sox pitcher, John McKenzie, struck out seventeen batters, in six innings. All that matters is his performance, which will be measured, with utter coldness, by the stats. Maybe it was like his never having a sore arm. The biggest picture in the room hung over the sofaan enlarged color photograph of the Blass family at the Father-and-Sons Day at Three Rivers Stadium in 1971. Karen and Steve pointed this out to me, and then they went back to their arrival in the big time on that rainy long-ago first day in Pittsburgh and Steves insisting on trying on his Pirate uniform, and they leaned back in their chairs and laughed about it again. I think there are things weighing on him, and I think he may be so angry inside that hes afraid to throw the ball. The booing from the fans, at first scattered and uncomfortable, grew louder. Like anyone in hard straits, he was deluged with unsolicited therapies, overnight cures, naturopathies, exorcisms, theologies, and amulets, many of which arrived by mail. And so it went. He entered the program at the suggestion of Joe Brown, who also enrolled Dave Giusti, Willie Stargell, pitcher Bruce Kison, and himself in the group. When spring training came, however, nothing had altered. Karen Blass #176481. The low, low minors. His eyesight went bad. Select this result to view Stephen Mark Blass's phone number, address, and more. ? he said. In this business, you bet on character. He had had enough. The word on him among the other clubs in his league was something like: Good but not overpowering stuff, excellent slider, good curve, good changeup curve. . Log in or sign up for Facebook to connect with friends, family and people you know. His decline, however, was partially attributable to his failure to stay in shape. Its Gimme the ball, boom! He could do Robert Kennedy. In truth, nothing helped. What was mystifying about the whole thing was that Blass still had his stuff, especially when he warmed up or threw on the sidelines. I think thats why I enjoyed it all so much when it did come along, when the good things did happen.. This is one reason that athletes are paid so well, and one reason that fear of failurethe unspeakable chokingis their deepest and most private anxiety. Then I looked out a few minutes later, and there was a whole bunch of them yelling and rolling around on the grass with him, like puppies. David and Chris have come through it all in fine shape. Steves humor in the clubhouse was unmatched, relief pitcher Dave Giusti said. He could do Roberto Clementenot just the way he moved but the way he talked. He didn't. Three days after Blass married high school sweetheart Karen Lamb in 1963, he went to the Dominican Republic not for vacation, but to learn to throw the slider. Karen Lamb: Children(s) Chris Blass, David Blass: No control problems. ADVERTISEMENT Steve Blass - Bio, Age, Wiki, Facts and Family Advertisement. At least that problem could be solved now. Karen Lamb, 53, was driving . I was embarrassed and disgusted. Where was Steve Blass born? Near the end of an article I wrote about that 1971 World Series, I mentioned watching Steve Blass in batting practice just before the all-important seventh game and suddenly noticing that, in spite of his impending responsibilities, he was amusing himself with a comical parody of Clemente at the plate: Blass. Karen Blass (Limited edition) See Photos. $0.99. Blass, then 29, still wishes he had talked longer, told his neighbors more of what was, and still is in his heart. There have been hundreds of shiningly promising rookie pitchers and sluggers who, for one reason or another, could not do their thing once they got up to the big time. That year, in his first outing Blass pitched five scoreless innings in relief against the Braves, facing, among others, Hank Aaron. We sat behind home plate, down near the screen, and during the first few innings a lot of young fans came clustering down the aisle to get Steves autograph. The team was still in Atlanta, and Virdon called Blass into the game in the fifth inning, with the Pirates trailing by 83. Tom Seaver went through such a slump last summer. All-Star team. Steve Blass is 6-0 (183 cm) tall. After that, Bill Virdon announced that Blass would probably not start another game; the Pirates were in a pennant race, and the time for patience had run out. Murtaugh, a peaceable man, then charged the home-plate umpire and cursed him for the bad call, and was thrown out of the game. He hit Willie Stargell and Manny Sanguillen in batting practice; both players told him to forget it. He started again against the Braves on June 11th, in Atlanta; after three and one-third innings he was gone, having given up seven singles, a home run, two walks, and a total of five runs. Great picture. He won a World Series title in 1971, earned an All-Star selection the following season and retired from the diamond a few . Ive never been a goal-plannerIve never said Im going to do this or that. Here are pictures from November 2022 show. He has been married to Karen Lamb since October 5, 1963. He told Joe Brown that Steves problems might be over. Perez took, for a ball, and then Blass threw him an intentional balla very bad slider inside. . Blass flew out to California to see Dr. Bill Harrison once more, and also to visit a hypnotist, Arthur Ellen, who has worked with several major-league players, and has apparently helped some of them, including Dodger pitcher Don Sutton, remarkably. He could do Manny Sanguillen. What happened to Blass isn't an anomaly. Frank Tepedino singled, driving in two runs, and Steve Blass was finally relieved. One day, the team made an eight-hour trip from Charleston to Toledo, where they played a night game. On a wall opposite a long sofa there was, among other things, a plaque representing the J. Roy Stockton Award for Outstanding Baseball Achievement, a Dapper Dan Award for meritorious service to Pittsburgh, a shiny metal bat with the engraved signatures of the National League All-Stars of 1972, a 1971 Pittsburgh Pirates World Champions bat, a signed photograph of President Nixon, and a framed, decorated proclamation announcing Steve Blass Day in Falls Village, Connecticut: Be it known that this twenty-second day of October in the year of our Lord 1971, the citizens of Falls Village do set aside and do honor with pride Steve Blass, the tall skinny kid from Falls Village, who is now the hero of baseball and will be our hero always. It was signed by the towns three selectmen. 2 2. Just the other morning, he was out working on the lawn, and a couple of the neighbors children came over to see him. By signing up, you agree to our User Agreement and Privacy Policy & Cookie Statement. Intelligent, knows how to win. A person lives on, he said more than once, smiling. Now go and do that again for me. So much money and so many people depend on you. Then, in the fifth and deciding game, he returned and threw seven and one-third more innings of thoughtful and precise patterns, allowing only four hits, and departed with his team ahead by 32a pennant-winning outing, except for the fact that the Pirate bullpen gave up the ghost in the bottom of the ninth, when a homer, two singles, and a wild pitch entitled the Reds to meet the Oakland As in the 1972 World Series. It gets much worse when you have to repeat it: We know youre great. Blass once told me that there were at least seventeen theories about the reason for his failure. In this segment he reminisces about . You know, its very important for a trainer to know the state of mind and the feelings of his players. Karen Blass. I had all kinds of games, with different, very complicated ground rules, he said. He wonders whether he will ever win again or whether he will now join the long, long listthe list that awaits him, almost surely, in the endof suddenly slow, suddenly sore-armed pitchers who have abruptly vanished from the big time, down the drain to oblivion. You may leave a message for the family by clicking here. Well, I really did it. The other, more serious theories are sometimes presented alone, sometimes in conjunction with others. Quick Facts She was born on 1953-01-31. Robinson fanned, and Blass said, Same old twenty-eight., The Pirates won easily, 50, with Jerry Reuss going all the way for the shutout, and just before the end Steve said, I always had trouble sleeping after pitching a real good game. The distance between the minors and the majors, always measurable in light-years, is probably greater today than ever before, and for a man making the leap in the wrong direction the feeling must be sickening. The catcher is Manny Sanguillen, of the Pirates, and his leaping teammate is pitcher Steve Blass, who has just defeated the defending (and suddenly former) World Champion Baltimore Orioles by a score of 21, giving up four hits. There are central areas you cant infringe on with him. In '72 he had some of the best numbers of his career. Dr. Harrison is an optometrist who has helped develop a system of optometherapy, designed to encourage athletes to concentrate on the immediate physical task at handhitting a ball, throwing a strikeby visualizing the act in advance; his firm was once retained by the Kansas City Royals baseball team, and his patients have included a number of professional golfers and football players. He earned a B.A. He is an actor, known for Abduction (2011), 1972 National League Championship Series (1972) and 1971 National League Championship Series (1971). Tony Bartirome, the Pirate trainer, who is a close friend of Steves, thought he was pitching as well as he ever had. . However, it is a fact that a professional athleteand most especially a baseball playerfaces a much more difficult task in attempting to regain lost form than an ailing businessman, say, or even a troubled artist; no matter how painful his case has been, the good will of his associates or the vagaries of critical judgment matter not at all when he tries to return. This was understandable, for he was in limbo. It was a good trip, because it gave him time to sort things out, and somewhere along the way he decided to give it up. Steve Blass played 10 . Id throw the ball up, and then Id be diving into the weeds for pop-ups or running back and calling for the long fly balls, and all. Blass has known the best and the worst of Pirates seasons on a personal level. (His pay, which had been ninety thousand dollars in 1973, was cut to seventy-five thousand for the next season, and then to sixty-three thousand this spring.) He gave up two runs in the second, but he seemed to throw without much tension, and he even struck out Bill Melton, the Chicago third baseman, with a fastball. " Down The Drain " is an unusual sports story. Rose took another ball, and then grounded out on a medium-speed curveball. He walked Mike Lum, throwing one pitch behind him in the process, which allowed Evans to move down to second. Steve Blass stayed home last winter. shoom! Its that good feeling. Sustaining this kind of control over a stretch of, say, one hundred and thirty pitches in a seven- or eight-inning appearance places such excruciating demands on a hurlers body and psyche that even the most successful pitchers regularly have games when they simply cant get the job done. Joe Morgan is strictly a fastball hitter, so I want to throw him a bad fastball to start him off, he said. You know, this thing thats happened has been painted so bad, so tragic, he said. I would call the balls and strikes and hits. Karen M Lamb. Prior to this season, Steve announced it . I must have thrown it three out of four pitches to him, and I just knew it was going to be there. In spite of such hovering and inexplicable hazards, every big-league pitcher knows exactly what is expected of him. I thought Id died and gone to Heaven, Blass said to me. I didnt know how to solve my problem, but I knew I had to solve it. How much is Steve Blass worth? Steve Blass was born on April 18, 1942 in Canaan, Connecticut, USA. Washington, DC 20515. This, the third and central Y in the picture, is immobile. CELEBRITY GOSSIPY BIO. He had a 10-year career as a pitcher for the Pirates and pitched two complete games in the 1971 World Series, giving up only seven hits and two runs in 18 innings while posting two victories. The residential address for Karen is 2711 Lee Av, Early, IA 50535. Blass agreed. It went on and happened to me. The pitcher is knocked about, often by an inferior rival team, and leaves within a few innings; asked about it later, he shrugs and says, I didnt have it today. He seems unsurprised. He felt that the Pirates and Joe Brown had been extraordinarily patient and sympathetic in dealing with a baffling and apparently irremediable problem. or. Karen Lamb Miller passed away peacefully, surrounded by her family on June 20, 2010, at Saint Luke's Hospital, after a sudden illness. You have no business being there, performing that way as a major-league pitcher. None of Blasss appearances during the rest of the 73 season were as dreadful as the Atlanta game, but none of them were truly successful. Last year, I went through something like Steves crisis. He threw well. I worried about being traded. Family (1) Spouse Blass, it should be understood, was not the same kind of pitcher as a Carlton or a Gibson. Lamb was 67 and had been in the hospital a week or . Maybe your control is something that can just go. The Charlies did a lot of travelling by bus. In spite of it all, Blass has kept his humor and has enjoyed life. Dave Giusti (He is one of the great relief pitchers in baseball. Toward the end of his 30-minute speech . He struck out some players with his fastball. See Photos. More than four decades after the ex-wife of Righteous Brothers singer Bill Medley was raped and killed, officials announced they used DNA to identify a suspect in the slaying: a man who was killed . He walked 84 batters . Blass did not argue about the decision; in fact, as a veteran with more than eight years service in the majors, he had to agree to the demotion before the parent club could send him down. Their fastball comes in high, their curves hang, the rest of their prime weapons desert them. You know, Blass said, before we faced him wed always have a team meeting and wed say, Stay out of the batters box, clean your spikesanything to make him slow up. But it never lasted more than an inning or two. Steve is an outstanding man, and you hate to quit on him. Play resumed. On a team that played close to .500 ball, Blass stood out as one of its prime stars. Reconnect with Karen Lamb (Blass) by joining our alumni site today. But it never happenedBlass saw to it that it didnt. It was kind of scary.. (Blasss brother-in-law, John Lamb, suffered a fractured skull when hit by a line drive in spring training in 1971, and it was more than a year before he recovered, but Blasss real pitching triumphs all came after that.). After giving up a home run to the Reds second batter of the day, Joe Morgan, which was hit off a first-pitch fastball, Blass readjusted his plans and went mostly to a big, slow curve, causing the Reds to hit innumerable rainmaking outfield flies, and won by 51. The fastball is a great healer. His wife, Karen, also from the . He had mechanical difficulties, with some underlying mental cause. I should know., The game rushed along, as games always do when Gibson is pitching. Like the other Pirates, Dave Giusti was watching with apprehensive interest. 3.85. Nellie King (A former pitcher with the Pirates. The first half of the season, I was atrocious, and I lost all my confidence, especially in my fastball. The six-day waiver period had expired, and none of the other clubs had claimed him. Karen Lamb (Blass) is a 1960 graduate of Housatonic Valley Regional High School in Falls Village, Connecticut. Longtime City of Fort Myers director of golf Rich Lamb passed away after a long health battle. He poured himself another cup of coffee and lit up a Garcia y Vega. But the moment a batter stood in against him he became a different pitcher, especially when throwing a fastballa pitcher apparently afraid of seriously injuring somebody. Blass said, We got in the car, and I floored it all the way across Ohio. I dont think anybody will ever understand his decline. Virdon and Blass agreed that a spell in the bullpen seemed called for; at least he could work on his problems there every day. His June 1975 profile of Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Steve Blass who suffered, legendarily, from the yips is among his favorites. In the summer of 54, when they won that record one hundred and eleven games, I managed to find every single box score in the newspapers and clip it, which took some doing up where we lived. I remember the vivid contrast in styles between the two stars in the noisy, floodlit, champagne-drenched Pirate clubhouse that afternoon. close to or above the 4.00 level will always be brought up by management. He was wearing slacks and a T-shirt and an old sweater (he had a golfing date later that day), and he looked very young. California Secretary of State. He lost the will to win. His totals for the one and one-third innings were seven runs, five hits, six bases on balls, and three wild pitches. I knew I wasnt capable of going in there, he said. His statistics for the 1973 season were three wins and nine defeats, and an earned-run average of 9.81. Watching him work, you sometimes wondered how he was getting all those batters out. On March 24th, Steve Blass started the second game of a doubleheader against the White Sox at Bradenton. To put it in simple terms, a good, middling pitcher should not surrender more than three or four walks per gameunless he is also striking out batters in considerable clusters. Marty Perez walked. It is directly behind the overlapping hand and glove of the dancers, and it binds and recapitulates the lines of force and the movements and the theme of the work, creating a composition as serene and well ordered as a Giotto. I really think thats one of the things thats helped me in baseball.. When I was a boy, I used to make up those fictitious games where I was always pitching in the bottom of the ninth in the World Series. As you can imagine, theres very little good work or improvement you can do under those circumstances.. 123 ratings20 reviews. Well, this early in the game I wouldnt try to throw him that slow curvethat big slop offspeed pitch. I asked if maintaining this superhuman calm might not have damaged Steve in some way, or even added to his problems. 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