Word: brayton
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this sort of thing that bothers Brayton. One week at Winston-Salem he pitched five innings on a Tuesday. On Thursday the starting pitcher got sick and they pointed to Brayton. He walked in and pitched a shutout for 8 2/3 innings. Afterwards the coach walked up to him and said, "Brayton, you're my new spot starter." When Brayton got called up to Bristol soon after, he ever got another start. Or the way Briston manager Dick MacAuliffe likes to let a faltering starter finish a game when it's obvious he should be pulled, just to give...
...Everything was as usual. The other team took the infield and a big first baseman was out there throwing. Then a voice from a dugout called him in and he never came back out. They'd told him to pack his bags and get going. This could happen to Brayton at any moment: in early December, the player-to-be-named-later from the Ferguson Jenkins trade was still unnamed, and it was being conjectured that a minor league reliever would be going to Texas. "Hell, it might be me." Further, there is the winter draft to weather--a process...
...door opens and several people come into Barney's. The shadow of a tennis sweater looms behind Brayton. It turns out to be an old Harvard acquaintance, a member of the Porcellian Club, like Brayton's two old roommates. The conversation is a bit strained...
...Well, gee, what are you up to?" Brayton asks...
...Brayton (he pauses, savoring it, taking pleasure in the way he can lightly shrug and say, humbly): "I play baseball...