Word: varney
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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...
...inherited that job last May when Stan Bahnsen was traded to Oakland," Varney said last week in reference to his extra responsibility, one which compelled him to come to Florida a month early for the player negotiations...
...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's case, though, he's usually sitting or crouching even when he is working, because Pete Varney is a catcher, which is not exactly what you expect of a Harvard history major...
...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...