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Message: [QUOTE="dennismenace, post: 3694762, member: 6158"] Gave new meaning to the word "Dominant" when on the mound. Truly a legendary player. Bill White the NL commissioner, first baseman teammate and former Yankee announcer gave some good inside information on what it was like to be on his side of the field. When Maurey Wills was stealing bases at will and got on base Gibson and White used to work pickoff moves and Gibson would repeatedly fire bullets a foot or so off the ground over to White. White would smack him in the head each time with the throws as he slid head first back to first. White laughed and said "we knew we couldn't really stop him so we tried to slow him down a bit." There was none of the cordial exchanges between opponents when someone got on base like you see today. As a Yankee fan at the time I was glad that he was in the other league. [/QUOTE]