{"id":12536,"date":"2024-11-08T17:34:31","date_gmt":"2024-11-08T17:34:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.internationalboxingassociation.com\/copy\/?page_id=12536"},"modified":"2024-11-08T17:39:41","modified_gmt":"2024-11-08T17:39:41","slug":"belinsky","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.internationalboxingassociation.com\/copy\/belinsky\/","title":{"rendered":"Belinsky"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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\u00a0<\/td>LAS VEGAS (NOV 24) – Bo Belinsky, the former major-league pitcher known as much for his colorful personality as his baseball career, died of an apparent heart attack at his home. Bo was 64 years old.

Bo was a left-hander who pitched a nine-strikeout, four-walk no-hitter as a rookie for the Los Angeles Angels against the Baltimore Orioles at Dodger Stadium in\u00a0 1962, the first major-league no-hitter on the West Coast.\u00a0<\/span>

Bo was not only long-time and good friends with IBA’s president Dean Chance, but Bo and Dean were on the same baseball team in the 1960’s.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>
Bo had gain much notoriety for dating movie stars such as Mamie Van Doren, Ann Margaret, Tina Louise, Juliet Prowse and Connie Stevens.\u00a0 He was at one time engaged to VanDoren.<\/span><\/td>

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<\/a>AP of Belinsky and Mamie\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/p><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>Van Doren told the Associated Press on Saturday, “We’ve had a love affair that’s continued a long time. “I lost someone that was a very special part of my life.”<\/span>

Van Doren went on to say, “This is very sad for me. Our life was a circus. We were engaged on April Fools Day and broke the engagement on Halloween. It just broke my heart, and his, too. It was a wild ride, but a lot of fun.”<\/span><\/p>

On May 5, 1962, the 25-year-old Belinsky had a live, riding fastball, a hard curve and baffling screwball, according to Bob (Buck) Rodgers, who caught the no-hitter.<\/span><\/p>

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<\/a>AP photo of Belinsky<\/span><\/b><\/p><\/td>

Rodgers, who later managed the Milwaukee Brewers, Montreal Expos and the Angels, said Belinsky had overpowering stuff on the night of the no-hitter.<\/span><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>

“He could challenge anybody with that fastball,” said Rodgers. “He got the screwball over early, but the fastball set up everything.<\/span><\/p>

“Even on the last out, it was a 3-1 fastball to Dave Nicholson and Bo threw him a fastball right down Broadway. He fouled out to third. When Bo was on, he had that electric kind of stuff.” (source tsn.ca)<\/span><\/p>

Bo had finished 10-11 his rookie season, his finest in the majors.\u00a0 Bo was\u00a0 28-51 with 476 strikeouts and an ERA of 4.10 in an eight-year career that included stints with the Angels, Philadelphia Phillies, Houston Astros, Pittsburgh Pirates and Cincinnati Reds.<\/span><\/p>

Bo told the Las Vegas Review Journal last summer, “You know, I’ve probably gotten more mileage winning 28 games in the majors than most guys who’ve won 200.”\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0 \u00a0 LAS VEGAS (NOV 24) – Bo Belinsky, the former major-league pitcher known as much for his colorful personality as his baseball career, died of an apparent heart attack at his home. Bo was 64 years old. Bo was a left-hander who pitched a nine-strikeout, four-walk no-hitter as a rookie for the Los Angeles […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"no-sidebar","site-content-layout":"page-builder","ast-site-content-layout":"full-width-container","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"disabled","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"disabled","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-12536","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.internationalboxingassociation.com\/copy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.internationalboxingassociation.com\/copy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.internationalboxingassociation.com\/copy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.internationalboxingassociation.com\/copy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.internationalboxingassociation.com\/copy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.internationalboxingassociation.com\/copy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.internationalboxingassociation.com\/copy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}