James Sherman Wynn (March 12, 1942 – March 26, 2020), nicknamed "the Toy Cannon", was an American professional baseball player. He played 15 seasons as a center fielder ; he spent ten of his fifteen seasons with the Houston Colt .45s / Astros before playing 2 All-Star seasons for the Los Angeles Dodgers and then two more seasons with three ...

Oct 30, 2009 · Trailing the Los Angeles Dodgers two games to one, Chicago White Sox manager Al Lopez called upon his Game One starter, Early Wynn, for Game Four. He thus again bypassed his long-time ace Billy...

Sep 27, 2022 · Ted Kluszweski and Early Wynn ruled Game 1, as Kluszewski singled, homered twice and knocked in five runs, and Wynn spun seven shutout innings to earn credit for Chicago's easy 11-0 victory.

Oct 25, 2020 · In 1959 Chicago’s Comiskey Park saw its first World Series since the ill-fated Black Sox of 1919. The Go-Go Sox faced the Los Angeles Dodgers, who were just two years earlier domiciled in Brooklyn. In their first year in Los Angeles, …

Mar 17, 2003 · Tired of temporizing with the hard-fighting but overmatched and punchless White Sox, the Dodgers set up Early Wynn for the kill in the third inning. They flattened Wynn and Dick Donovan with a devastating blast in the fourth inning and romped to a 9 to 3 victory which gave them the world’s championship, four games to two.

Jan 4, 2012 · The White Sox faced the Los Angeles Dodgers in the 1959 World Series, and Early pitched seven shutout innings in the opening game, teaming with reliever Jerry Staley to defeat the Dodgers by an 11-0 score. However, he struggled in the fourth contest, played at the Los Angeles Coliseum before 92,650 fans.

Sep 15, 2022 · Early Wynn was roughed up for four runs in the third inning as the Dodgers led 4-0 until Sherm Lollar homered in the top of the seventh with two runners aboard to tie the score at 4-4.

Mar 27, 2020 · As early as 1970, Wynn made it known he wanted to be traded. In the winter of 1973, the Dodgers traded longtime starting pitcher Claude Osteen to get Wynn, who got what he wanted in Los Angeles.

Los Angeles Dodgers beat Chicago White Sox (9-3). Oct 8, 1959, Attendance: 47653, Time of Game: 2:33. Visit Baseball-Reference.com for the complete box score, play-by-play, and win probability

In fact, Wynn started the pennant-clinching game and the opener of the World Series, in which he pitched seven shutout innings as Chicago beat the Los Angeles Dodgers, 11-0. But Wynn's arm stiffened in the cold and when he returned in Game Four, …