He led the National League in complete games, made the All-Star team, and won the Cy Young Award that season.

[1] His career was derailed by an injury to his ankle sustained on the bus trip on which the team was celebrating clinching the 1960 pennant.

[6][7] In December 1978, he accepted a position as pitching coach for the Seibu Lions of the Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB).

[8] Three years later, Law returned to the United States as a coach for the Portland Beavers of the Pacific Coast League,[9] moving in 1983 to the Denver Bears of the American Association, where he would remain for one season before being handed the team's managerial reins in 1984.

Law's promotion, however, proved short-lived when an extended midseason slump led to his dismissal on July 3, replaced by coach Adrian Garrett.

[10] Law was made a Deacon in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints at the age of 12, became a teacher two years later and was ordained a priest at 17.