Word: brayton
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Three Times" between innings and the "bullpen" is likely to be a bench near the left field line. The Eastern League has a grueling schedule, too: 40 games in 144 days, April 10 to September 1, no days off. Once in a great while a local reporter will approach Brayton, and produce a "Patrician Who Can Pitch!" story with the Harvard angle, but there's previous little attention, too. Brayton says he sends what seems like 1000 schedules to his friends, begging them to come watch him play, but sometimes there are long stretches in strangle middle-sized cities where...
...like high school, you know. You put on your uniform in your own locker room and get in the bus and go somewhere and play and drive back all sweaty." When you play, "sometimes you feel like a caged animal, people throwing peanuts at you." But who's complaining? Brayton's never one to let a few gripes grow to defiance...
...Them" again. The most rebellious thing Brayton ever did was to hint at threatening to quit when he was on Winston-Salem. Soon afterwards he was called up to Bristol. But always the paranoid, he worries that "They" only wanted to appease...
...year Brayton could be anywhere. He'll be married, to Hope Price, an education student at Lesley who's already met all the baseball wives and says she's looking forward to her marriage to baseball. He'll still have a dog named Slider. He'll still come up to Cambridge to check in at the Owl Club for news of friends. But this can't go on too much longer...
...Brayton had an "exceptional year" last season, says his minor league pitching coach Bill Slack. With the ability to keep the ball down that experience brings, Slack says, Brayton "has a shot" at the majors. Bill Slack is a typical coach...