Word: sox
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last week in Sarasota, Fla., that same Pete Varney sat on the Chicago White Sox bullpen bench, a major league baseball player and a considerable distance from Adams House, where he lived for three years, and Soldiers Field, where he spent a good deal of his undergraduate career...
...this particular day, Varney's employers, the Chicago White Sox, were working against the Pittsburgh Pirates in a rare Wednesday afternoon doubleheader. But Varney's day wouldn't begin until the start of the second game, and when you're a professional baseball player and you're not working, you're sitting...
Varney, however, has been catching more than pitched baseballs recently. As the White Sox player representative he's had to handle the verbal abuse from the owners this spring, which has been almost as tough as Wilbur Wood's knuckleballs...
...primary task, Varney will most likely spend the summer alternating with Brian Downing (no, not Brian Dowling) behind the White Sox plate as he did last season, his first full one in the majors...
...reached a substantial agreement with the Red Sox," Woolf said after the three-hour session, and added that Tiant would probably join the rest of the team in Winter Haven, Fla., today. Details of the new agreement were relayed to General Manager Dick O'Connell, who was with the squad in Florida, for final approval...