Vic raschi baseball player
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Vic Raschi
In the Yankees’ unprecedented streak of five straight World Series titles between 1949 and 1953, Vic Raschi’s record was 92-40, an average of eighteen wins a season and a winning percentage of .697.
From 1949, only his second full season in the majors, through 1951, Raschi won twenty-one games each year.
Victor John Angelo Raschi was born in West Springfield, Massachusetts, on March 28, 1919.
Vic raschi baseball player
His nickname, “The Springfield Rifle,” combined the speed of his fastball and the name of the neighboring city—the site of the U.S. Armory which had been producing army rifles since 1794. His parents, Massimino, a carpenter who worked for the railroad, and Egizia had moved to Springfield when Raschi was still in diapers.
Vic also had two older sisters and a younger brother.
A star in baseball, football, and basketball at Springfield Tech High School, Raschi attracted the attention of Yankees scout Gene McCann while still a freshman. In 1936 Raschi signed an agreement under which