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Last week in Sarasota, Fla., that same Pete Varney sat on the Chicago White Sox bullpen bench, a major league baseball player and a considerable distance from Adams House, where he lived for three years, and Soldiers Field, where he spent a good deal of his undergraduate career...
...came grad school, where Varney gradually worked his way up from Class A to AA to AAA (in baseball grad school, they don't even give out B's, much less C's), and which eventually led to his place under the Florida sun on the White Sox bullpen bench in Sarasota...
Liar's Bench. Warner is as attentive to the crabmen as he is to their catch...
...long hours spent on the water, hauling heavy "drudges" and sorting crabs as they scamper across a pitching deck have fostered a deep affection for the stoic, whimsical fisher folk. That feeling shines through Warner's retelling of Jaws-style crises spawned at "liar's bench" on the dock at Crisfield...
Separated. Johnny Bench, 28, All-Star catcher of the world champion Cincinnati Reds; and Model Vickie Chesser Bench, 26; after a year's marriage, no children...