""That's what kept his arm in shape because he hammered, and did everything that he had to do, and he used the saw, and it kept his arm in the condition he kept it in, that's what he always said," Jackie, his younger sister, said."
""He had a wonderful life," said Jackie, who turned 77 on Thursday. "I'm going to miss his humor, is what I'm going to miss. "Because no matter what you had to say to him, he always had some kind of a bounce-back at you.""
""I used to say to him when I'd leave, 'Well, catch you again. If everything's OK, I'll be back to see you,'" Jackie recalled. "'And he said, 'Or you won't!' He always had something witty.""
"Known as "The Baron of the Bullpen," Face went 104-95 with 191 saves and a 3.48 earned run average."
ElRoy Face grew up in a family of carpenters and worked in carpentry during baseball off-seasons, crediting that work with keeping his pitching arm in shape. He was born in Stephentown in 1928 and graduated from Averill Park High School. Face pitched 16 major-league seasons from 1953 to 1969 and became one of the game's first closers. He saved Games 1, 4 and 5 in the Pittsburgh Pirates' dramatic seven-game 1960 World Series victory over the New York Yankees. Face compiled a 104-95 record with 191 saves, a 3.48 ERA, held multiple Pirates records, settled in the Pittsburgh area, and died at 97.
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