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...management traded away his best friends on the team, and they sold his very best friend, Bernie Carbo--who was also the best pinch-hitter on the bench--to Cleveland. The Red Sox got nothing but money in exchange for Bernie Carbo, the co-spaceman who was known as one of the best pinch-hitters in baseball. Lee quit the team for three days in protest. "It's time we started talking about the earth," he said upon returning...
This sport is my favorite. I can appreciate seeing other people suffering, all of them knowing that for the next two weeks it's do or die. You're Bernie Carbo up at bat with two men on and two out. You're Muhammed Ali in the fifteenth round of his bout with Leon Spinks (almost...
...Rangers took a 1-0 lead early when Toby Harrah tapped starter and loser Ferguson Jenkins for a four-bagger in the second. Texas stayed on top until the seventh, when Bernie Carbo cranked his second homer of the season to tie the game...
...received an overwhelming response from last week's e.e. cummings quiz in free verse but, unfortunately, not all of the answers were correct...J.M. from Kirkland wrote in "Mike Curtis?"...F.M. from Winthrop wondered if it was "Carmelita Pope"...The correct answer was Bernie Carbo...Here's this week's quiz...
Died. Paul John ("Frankie") Carbo, 72, once the underworld's "commissioner of boxing"; of heart disease; in Miami Beach. Born on New York City's Lower East Side, Carbo graduated from a reformatory to become a hoodlum and reputed hit man for Murder Inc. During boxing's unsavory heyday, Carbo was a racketeer and strongman, forcing managers to fix fights. He was sent to jail for 25 years in 1961 for conspiracy and extortion, but was paroled this year because of failing health...