Johnny Podres

LAST JUNE, the Devil Rays honored the world champion 1955 Brooklyn Dodgers and invited three of the club's mainstays—Hall of Famer Duke Snider and pitchers Carl Erskine and Johnny Podres—to throw first pitches....

1954 • ROGER BANNISTER

JANUARY 2, 1956

Statisticians and fatalists know that everybody has to lose some time—but why does it happen so often for a team the week after it's touted on the cover of SI?

It was the day before game 1 of the 1993 World Series, the first Fall Classic for Johnny Podres in 28 years. He shuffled past dozens of reporters, asked a clubhouse kid, "How do I get to the field from here?" and...