Vida Blue
ALLALL - Vida Blue
Open up your mouth
Give me perfect words I’ve never heard
I’m ready now, let’s go
Burn my world; a southpaw curve
Fast and hard — like Vida blue
Listen
ALL- Vida Blue
Open up your mouth, give me perfect words I’ve never heard.
I’m ready now lets go.
Burn my world a southpaw curve,
Fast and hard, like Vida Blue
Baseball Is Back!

Time, August 28, 1971
Illustration: Bob Peak
Left-handed Oakland Athletics pitcher Vida Blue was the American League Cy Young Award winner and MVP in 1971 as he posted a 24-8 record.