Following Bill Stafford in 1960 and Rollie Sheldon last year, Jim is next in the line of young pitchers produced by the Yankee farm system. After a 14-8, 2.73 season at Class B Greensboro and last year's 13-7, 2.97 with 151 strikeouts for New York's Amarillo club in the Texas League, his bulldog intensity won him a place in the majors out of spring training this year.
Jim was born in Newark, attended high school in Chicago and pitched in college at Western Michigan.
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