The phrase “bullpen baron” which will be applied famously to Pirates reliever ElRoy Face 

The phrase “bullpen baron” which will be applied famously to Pirates reliever ElRoy Face 

1950 – The phrase “bullpen baron” — which will be applied much more famously to Pirates reliever ElRoy Face by beat writer Jack Hernon in 1959 — is coined by Joe Reichler of the Associated Press in his pre-season profile of the St. Louis Cardinals: “For relief they have Ted Wilks, the league’s bullpen baron with a 10-3 record for 59 assignments last year.”