Baseball Minutia: Todays Dead Ball Player - Art Fowler

From hoistin’ the moist to bending breaking elbows with Art Fowler and Billy Martin…

Art’s real legacy in the game is always going to be his pitching coach experience and his involvement with Billy Martin. Together they must have decided over cocktails one night to see what kind of abuse a pitchers arm could take, and they both followed through with their plan.

...Back again in 1988 Fowler coached a staff that for he first time in his career had not one starter with at least 200 innings pitched (Rick Rhoden led the team with 197)

After that season Fowler went the way that Martin went and moved away from the diamond. Behind him he left a legacy as a crafty hurler who loved to chase down a cold drink with guys like Joe Nuxhall and Billy Martin, he also left a wide path of success as well as destruction that has helped the folks in the game learn more about the hopes and the limitations of the pitchers arm.