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...five-year, $8.4 million contract with the Mets, was clearly uncomfortable as he was asked for the names of other players with whom he had shared cocaine. He cited two former St. Louis teammates: Pitcher Lary Sorensen, 29, who is now with the Chicago Cubs, and Outfielder Bernie Carbo, 38, who retired at the end of the 1980 season...
...heard some of the best. Before the seventh game of the 1975 series, Sox starting pitcher Bill Lee announced that after the game, Red's starter "Don Gullett is going to the Hall of Fame and I'm going to the Eliot Lounge." Troubled reserve Red Sox outfielder Bernie Carbo once explained his failure to respond to phonecalls saying, "I only answer the phone when its my wife calling...
...could be Bernie Carbo tossing the warmup ball into the gold reflected shine of the blue and red box seats, pepper finished for the day, while the pitchers ramble out to the bullpen...
...Carbo was one of the game's finest pinch hitters and one of Lee's best friends on the team. In the middle of the 1978 season when the Sox were in a right pennant race with the Yankees, Carbo was shipped to Cleveland for a $15,000 pocketful of change. Lee walked off the team in protest. He was right too. Carbo was exactly who the Sox needed to send out to face Rich Gossage in the playoff game at the end of the season after Bucky Dent's heartbreaking home...
...description of the incident however is a good example of what sometimes makes the book hard to stomach. His flip sense of the absurd made him a good quote but hurts him as a narrator. Selling Carbo hurt him deeply but he tells the story for laughs...