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Number 37 is William Francis Lee III, alias "Spaceman." During spring training, Lee was healthy and "hot," entering his ninth year with the Red Sox. He is the second most successful southpaw in the team's history...
...management traded away his best friends on the 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...
...They played great defensive ball tonight," inactive reliever Bill Lee said. "The infield's finally settling down from all those injuries--I guess we stepped onto a less volatile, hostile field tonight. We came to the realization that we're actually in second place," Spaceman explained...
...gotta field questions in there like a president," Spaceman Bill Lee said, holding a copy of "National Geographic." "Trouble is," Lee said," he looks more like Meldrim Thomson...
...most exciting story of the ages." Writing in the liberal Christian Century, Jennings says that if extraterrestrial life forms prove able to reach us, we might need to differentiate between the "great God of the Universe" and the God of Abraham and Moses, who might have been "simply a spaceman-become-a-tribal-deity." Wildly, he also proposes that some sort of primordial "genetics experiment" could have created Jesus Christ with his unique religious insight...