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...didn't have too much time to get too down about it, with the press calling and all, but I knew things might be difficult," Stenhouse says. With his father, Dave, a pitcher with the Washington Senators in the early '60's, acting as his agent, he began negotiations optimistically. "It could have been ideal," he says. "With a team like that, (the A's have been welded to last place in recent years) it could have been a quick way to get where I wanted." The majors...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: Mike Stenhouse Meets Charles O. Finley | 11/6/1979 | See Source »

There is the story of one Gene Conley, pitcher for the '62 Sox and forward for the Celtics during the off-season, who left the Red Sox for 68 hours, contemplating the possibility of going "to Bethlehem, Israel," to get "nearer to God." He was drunk and tired, they said. But Conley was sick of his two-sport grind, and he admitted later that "religion saved me. I became a Seventh Day Adventist. I would have been a first-class drunk. I would have blown everything. I was going pretty fast for a lot of years. So I've kind...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: Heroes and Fools | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

These are the people who leer through the history of the Red Sox. Like Bill Lee lighting a candle and leaving it on Don Zimmer's desk in memory of friend Bernie Carbo, on the day of Carbo's importation to Cleveland. Like Jimmy Piersall walking up to the pitcher's mound one afternoon during batting practice and firing a limp stream of water at homeplate with a squirt...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: Heroes and Fools | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

Brown-followers might take a double-take at these stats: long a starting pitcher who worked a Harvard record innings in 1978. Brown has been transd--at least temporarily--into a relie "It was the first time that I relieved," he said, "and I enjoyed it in the respect that I got to throw in key situations often; but I also missed going out there and throwing nine innings...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: Larry Brown: From Soldiers Field to the Astrodome? | 10/25/1979 | See Source »

Crimson editor Bill Lee was named National League left-handed pitcher of the year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Scoreboard | 10/22/1979 | See Source »

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