WHIZ KID: Jim (Blackie) Derrington of La...

WHIZ KID: Jim (Blackie) Derrington of La Habra now runs an Anaheim produce brokerage, but 35 years ago he became the youngest pitcher to start a major league game (C6). . . . He was 16. Said Paul Deitz, for whom Derrington would work as an assistant coach at Chapman College in the 1960s: “No one that I ever saw in my lifetime was as good as Jim was at that point.” An arm injury ended Derrington’s career at age 22.