Word: lees
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Zimmer thing was just an opening monologue. It seemed that all along Lee wanted to unfold for us the microcosm of his personality; why he's like any other ballplayer, why he's special, and why to a degree everyone wants to be like...
...even Bailey. Hell, he thought he was Carbo, that's he sent him up to pinch hit for Brohamer in the playoff game," replied Lee...
...Bill Lee is a cult figure in a sport that is a culture unto itself. He feels and radiates the allure of baseball, and embodies all that the game tries to relate to it's close-minded competition-oriented throng. Meanwhile he lives the dream of every kid that ever broke his glove in by sticking it under his mattress, or scraped his knee sliding at a Little League tryout. He's in the majors, and he's grateful. And if he shows his gratitude by not having an agent squabble over contract negotiations, by not being mercenary to television...
...feel I have a unique roll in baseball," Lee said. "It's to teach the kids to go out and have fun, and don't let the bastards get you down. Don't do the things that are already bad, like commercials...
...calls himself an "anachronism" and that's a sad commentary on the state of baseball, maybe the world. Bill Lee is 99 per cent ballgame, 1 per cent double knit polyester (the uniform only). He's called a flake only because things have changed...