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| Al Downing |
Al Downing
Al Downing, born in Trenton, NJ, attended Monuments, Cadwalader, Junior #1 and
Trenton Central High School. HE was
President for each of three years at TCHS. He lettered in basketball and
baseball and was Vice-Resident t of the Forum Club. He attended Muhlenberg
College.
Signed with the New York Yankees in1961, he made the
major league roster by July of that season. In his first full major league
season, 1963, Downing went
13-5 with a 2.56 earned
run average for a Yankee team that went 104-57.
He was traded to the Oakland
Athletics in 1970; in 1771, the LA
Dodgers. Winner of 20-games, he earned NL Comeback Player of the Year honors as
well as finishing third in NL Cy Young award1971.
Altogether Al Downing –played 17-years in the Major
Leagues.
Downing served as a color analyst on
Dodgers cable-TV broadcasts from 1984-87 and on Dodgers radio in 2005. He also
broadcast for CBS Radio in the 1990’s, and the Atlanta Braves in 2000.
As of 2006, he remains on the Dodgers Speaker's Bureau.
He is an honoree in the Trenton,
Mercer County and New Jersey Hall of Fame.
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