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...afford to give up the veteran? Where will he hit in the lineup? Will he break the rotation, or will we use him in the bullpen? Will that rookie be as good as he's supposed...
With almost any team you can name, not just the Cardinals, Drabowsky was a relief pitcher in the '60s famous for his sense of humor and a proclivity for charging long-distance calls to the bullpen telephones. Retiring to a brokerage, he wrote a book titled Everything I Know About the Stock Market, filled with empty pages. Just last week he thought of adding a chapter. But on an unlikely afternoon in 1966, Drabowsky turned into the sort of World Series hero Dan Gladden and Tom Lawless have just become, not to mention Al Weis, Al Gionfriddo...
When, in a much less dramatic moment on opening day of the 1986 season, a "Fenway Bleacher Beachball" came floating into the bullpen, Bob Stanley promptly raked the soul out of the ball and got rocked when he came in to pitch the next inning...
...Middle-inning relief is often considered pivotal in setting up the ace of the bullpen. Whenever the starting pitcher gets past the seventh inning, the manager considers it an extra advantage, as the middle relievers get some needed rest, Last year, one hurler pitched at least seven innings in 30 games, leading the majors, Name...
Director Jerry Zaks makes his intentions plain even before the characters really start talking. From a men's room tucked into the corner of a scabrous press bullpen in a criminal-courts building, out walk a trollop and a policeman adjusting his clothes after what has obviously been a brief but close encounter. Gradually the room fills with journalists who gamble, politicians who steal, gangsters who peddle influence, and an editor who employs leg breakers to circulate his paper. This is a town festering with corruption, and everyone aspires only to scrabble to the top of the dung heap. Life...