When Sal Maglie was finishing his two years, 1956-1957, with the Brooklyn Dodgers, he gave advice to his two future Hall of Fame teammates, Sandy Koufax and Don Drysdale. Known around baseball as “The Barber,” Sal told the future greats: "Throw that second brushback pitch right away so the batter will know you meant the first one."

Koufax and Drysdale were quick studies, and with Maglie, rank numbers 3, 4 and 8, respectively, in the Top Ten among baseball history’s most feared moundsmen. The always-intimidating St. Louis Cardinals’ Bob Gibson tops the list. Judith Testa, in her book, Sal Maglie, the Demon Barber, described Maglie as "a glowering, 6-foot-2-inch, 180-pound righthander whose game-day face bristled with thick black stubble."