Word: lees
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...There's nothing wrong with my arm right now," Lee said after the last game of the season, in the midst of a subdued celebration. "He just hates my guts and he won't let me pitch. If I bail him out like I bailed him out last year then he won't be able to trade me, and he'll look like an idiot besides...
...Lee's is not a routine player-manager conflict. Then again, Lee is not a routine ballplayer. "It's a shame he's not out there pitching for us," Carlton Fisk said. Fisk first caught Lee when they both started for Boston's Bristol, Conn., farm club. "He was always a great competitor on the mound," Fisk said. "He was always intense during a game. And he was rebellious. Bill just wouldn't accept authority. He never liked people telling him how to live or what to think...
Zimmer did not approve of Lee's thoughts and comments about him, especially after a photograph of Zimmer which appeared in Sports Illustrated was captioned, "Being called a gerbil is O.K. if you win." Lee was accused of smoking marijuana on the team plane by various members of the press. He refused to "dress up" when the team appeared publicly, and he did a lot of strange things. Flaky things...
...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...
...Bill Lee never got back into the rotation; he never even got another nine innings over the rest of the season. Instead of using veteran Lee, who had a 12-5 lifetime record against the Yankees, during the two four-game duels with the New Yorkers, Zimmer went with John LaRose and Bobby Sprowl, who were brought up from Boston's Pawtucket, R.I. farm team just for the occasion. They were making their major league debuts, and they both were sent to the showers early...