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That love of the game is what comes across in Lee's autobiography. The Wrong Stuff. For 12 years Lee was the Red Sox and Expos' goofy left-hander who quoted Einstein and Kurt Vonnegut in post game interviews and jogged along. Storrow Drive to the ballpark For him, playing...

Author: By John F. Baughman, | Title: High and Way Outside | 7/20/1984 | See Source »

He subjects us to a similar analysis of his drinking and drug-taking. Nobody cared that Bill Lee smoked pot. One of the funniest things he ever did happened shortly after he was traded to the Montreal Expos. He told a writer that he "used" marijuana. The commissioner's office...

Author: By John F. Baughman, | Title: High and Way Outside | 7/20/1984 | See Source »

Altering facts to achieve a dramatic narrative is a legacy of the New Journalism, which was popularized in magazines and books in the 1960s and '70s and has been increasingly criticized. New Journalists may merge characters or invent scenes. They sometimes reconstruct sequences based on interviews with third parties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Embroidering the Facts | 7/2/1984 | See Source »

In several cases, the gap between individuals and the rest of the group seemed insurmountable. Shawn, above all, was someone that everyone liked a good deal, but only eventually grew to realize they could not save. She was instantly likeable, and entered as Lionel's only certifiable celebrity; she had...

Author: By Adam S. Cohen and Luis C. Silva, S | Title: Too close for comfort | 6/7/1984 | See Source »

The Crimson also has some powerful bats. First baseman Elliott Rivera (.389, 39 RBI, seven homers) leads the team in everything except triples and runs scored. Rivera needs just one RBI to tie Harvard's single-season record, set by former Crimson star and rising Montreal Expos prospect Mike Stenhouse...

Author: By Mike Knobler, | Title: It's on to the Maine Show for Batmen | 5/25/1984 | See Source »

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