Word: carbos
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...long-range planning is Lee's biggest beef with their management. Specifically he hates the tendency to trade away fading but still useful players on the hopes that the young kid from the plains is the next incarnation of Hank Aaron. Protesting the dumping of friends like Bernie Carbo, Tim McCarver and Rodney Scott eventually got Lee kicked out of baseball but it still bugs the hell out of him. The worst was Carbo. Baseball fans the world over remember Carleton Fisk's body-English home run off the foul pole that won the sixth game of the '75 World...
...Bernie Carbo and Ed Armbrister...
Only the poorest kids from the toughest circumstances are bold enough to try this way out and naive enough to like their chances. Most fighters are strangely vulnerable. So wishful and sincere, they are eternally easy marks for the users, the chiselers, Frankie Carbo, Blinky Palermo and all their current counterparts. Yet many people regard boxing's corruption as its charm and find the scoundrels colorful and delightful. Nobody really worries...
...friends from Cincinatti chatted quietly of Bernie Carbo and Johnny Bench and the Big Red Machine. Another brought up the Dodgers and that infield of Garvey, Lopes, Russell and Cey that seemed to play together forever as the boys in Freeway Blue rolled through the late '70s. For my part, I just rambled back to first grade and those Amazing Mets of 1969--Al Weiss, Tommy Agee, Cleon Jones ("You remember what happened to Cleon?" --the back seat of that car, those drugs, that woman...
Coxswain Sally Harris expertly navigated the heavyweights' new, high-technology Carbo-craft boat (almost light enough to attach a string and fly in Saturday's winds) to a bumpy 15-second win over Northeastern...