SONOMA, Calif. — There were no radar guns in Art Schallock’s day, and even if there were, the soft-throwing lefty knows he would have barely registered a blip. At 5-foot-9, 155 pounds, the New York Yankees pitcher got by on guile.
“I was sneaky,’’ Schallock said Monday.
But now, at very long last, the crafty lefty is about to hit triple-digits. Schallock turns 100 this month, a milestone day for the oldest living former Major League Baseball player.
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And here inside this senior living center, where Schallock is the resident celebrity, they’re about to throw the party of his century. “Oh, it’s the big buzz,’’ said Wendy Cornejo, the executive director of
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