Rayuwa Mai launin shudi

Vida Rochelle Blue Jr. (/vaɪdɑː/;  28 ga Yuli, 1949 - 6 ga Mayu, 2023) ta kasance 'yar wasan Kwallon ƙafa ta Amurka.  Ya kasance mai jefa kwallo na hagu a Major League Baseball daga 1969 zuwa 1986, musamman a matsayin memba na daular Oakland Athletics wanda ya lashe gasar zakarun duniya sau uku a jere daga 1972 zuwa 1974. Ya lashe lambar yabo ta American League (AL) Cy Young da kuma lambar yabo ta Most Valuable Player a shekarar 1971. 

A sau shida All-Star, Blue shi ne na farko daga cikin biyar pitchers a cikin manyan league tarihin da fara All-Star Game ga duka American League (1971) da National League (1978). A lokacin aikinsa na shekaru 17, ya buga wa Oakland Athletics (1969-1977), San Francisco Giants (1978-1981; 1985-86), da Kansas City Royals (1982-83). 

 Rayuwa ta farko 
An haifi Vida Blue kuma ta girma a Mansfield a DeSoto Parish, Louisiana . Shi ne babba a cikin yara shida da aka haifa wa Vida Blue, Sr, ma'aikaci a Mansfield iron foundry da matarsa Sallie . 

Blue ta halarci makarantar sakandare ta DeSoto a Mansfield . Ya buga wa tawagar kwallon kwando kuma ya buga wa tawayen kwallon kafa kwata-kwata. A cikin babban shekarunsa na kwallon kafa, ya jefa don yadudduka 3,400 kuma ya kammala 35 touchdown passes yayin da yake gudu don yaduddusa 1,600. A cikin babban shekarunsa na baseball, Blue ya jefa ba tare da buga ba tare da 21 strikeouts a cikin kawai bakwai innings pitched.

 Ayyukan Baseball 
Blue ya kasance mai jefa kwallo wanda ya yi aiki da sauri  ya kai hari kan yankin yajin aiki. Ya jefa ƙwallon ƙafa na lokaci-lokaci don kiyaye masu bugawa daga daidaituwa da canji sama da matsakaicin canji, amma sa hannu ya kasance ƙwallon sauri wanda ya jefa koyaushe a mil 94 a kowace awa (151 km / h),  amma zai iya kaiwa mil 100 a kowace awa (160 km / h).  A cikin The Neyer / James Guide to Pitchers, jagoran da ya fi dacewa Pete Rose ya bayyana cewa Blue "ya yi wuya kamar kowa" da ya taɓa fuskanta,   masanin tarihin baseball Bill James ya ambaci Blue a matsayin mai jefawa mafi wuya, kuma na biyu mafi wuya a zamaninsa, bayan Nolan Ryan kawai. 

 Oakland Athletics (1969-1977) 
Kungiyar Kansas City Athletics ta zabi Blue a zagaye na biyu na Shirin MLB na 1967.  Kodayake an dauke shi don buga wasan Kwallon ƙafa na kwaleji a Jami'ar Notre Dame, Jami'ar Purdue, da Jami'ar Houston, Blue ya zaɓi ya sanya hannu tare da Athletics don $ 12,500 a kowace shekara don taimakawa wajen tallafawa iyalinsa bayan mutuwar mahaifinsa. 

Blue ya fara kakar 1969 tare da Birmingham A's, amma an inganta shi don yin babban league na farko a ranar 20 ga Yuli.  A shekara ta 1970, bayan ya kwashe kakar wasa a cikin kananan wasanni tare da Midwest League guda A Burlington Bees da Iowa Oaks na Ƙungiyar Amurka, an kira Blue a watan Satumba, yana farawa biyu. A ranar 11 ga watan Satumba, ya rufe Kansas City Royals 3-0, ya ba da bugawa daya kawai, ga Pat Kelly a wasan na takwas. Kwanaki goma bayan haka, Blue bai buga wasan karewa ba kuma ya sake maimaita gasar zakarun Amurka ta Yamma Minnesota Twins, 6-0, a Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum, wanda ya zo a kan Harmon Killebrew na huɗu. Shi ne dan wasa na huɗu mafi ƙanƙanta da ya jefa ba tare da bugawa ba.

 Rayuwa da mutuwarsa 
A watan Satumbar 1989, Blue ta auri Peggy Shannon a kan Dutsen mai jefa kwallo a Candlestick Park . Mutumin da ya fi dacewa shi ne tsohon abokin aikinsa Willie McCovey kuma Orlando Cepeda ya raka Shannon zuwa tudu.

Suna da tagwaye kuma sun sake aure a shekarar 1996. Ya kuma haifi ɗa Derrick  da wasu 'ya'ya mata biyu.

Bayan ya yi ritaya daga wasan baseball, Blue ya zauna a yankin Twain Harte na California a cikin tsaunukan Sierra Nevada na shekaru da yawa, kafin ya koma Tracy, California a shekara ta 2007. 

Blue ya mutu a wani asibiti a Gabashin Bay a ranar 6 ga Mayu, 2023, yana da shekaru 73.  A cewar jami'an kungiyar Athletics, Blue ya mutu sakamakon matsalolin kiwon lafiya da suka samo asali daga ciwon daji.
Rukuni:Mutuwan 2023
Rukuni:Haifaffun 1949
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