Word: sox
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other hand, you are Bob Heise or John Balaz, it means having to sweat out every ground out to third because it may be your last in a Red Sox uniform for quite a while...
...road from Loyal Park to White Sox stadium had first taken Varney to such tourist traps as Ashville, N.C., Tucson, Ariz., and Des Moines, Iowa. After having received his masters degree in minor league baseball, Varney earned a spot with the big boys...
...knew that I wanted to be a professional baseball player in college," Varney said while watching the White Sox defeat the Pirates, 4-2, in the first game of the twinbill. "I had spoken to the Dallas [as in football] Cowboys as a free agent, but they didn't offer me any money," so Varney signed with the Chisox a month after leading the Crimson batmen to the 1971 College World Series...
Then came grad school, where Varney gradually worked his way up from Class A to AA to AAA (in baseball grad school, they don't even give out B's, much less C's), and which eventually led to his place under the Florida sun on the White Sox bullpen bench in Sarasota...
...first game was just about ending, but Varney's day was only beginning; new Sox manager Paul Richards had tabbed Varney to catch the nightcap. Before donning the tools of ignorance, Varney admitted, "Sure, they rib you a little about going to Harvard, but it's not too bad. Most of the guys have a college education, anyway...