![]() ![]() He also was the subject of a 1980 song by musician Warren Zevon, titled, “Bill Lee. Lee has authored several books, including “The Wrong Stuff,” “Have Glove, Will Travel” and “The Little Red (Sox) Book: A Revisionist Red Sox History.” He pitched the Red Sox into the World Series in 1975. He was an all-star in 1973 and won 17 games in three consecutive seasons from 1973 to 1975. ![]() In 14 seasons with Boston and Montreal, Lee went 119-90, according to. “Once we realized it wasn’t, we went down there to help.” “Originally we thought it was part of the show,” Heather Fain, a paramedic who was at the game, told the Morning News. The Bananas are a popular club known for its bright yellow uniforms and entertaining antics on and off the field, according to The Associated Press. ![]() He returned to Savannah for the weekend for two home games, the Morning News reported. Lee, a member of the Red Sox Hall of Fame, pitched for the Savannah Bananas Premier Team for a series of home and road games last spring, according to the newspaper. That only ends one way normally, but their direct involvement saved his life.” “He had a cardiac episode that stopped his breathing. “I would say without immediate intervention, that person would not be alive right now,” Bob Millie, an administrator for the town of Thunderbolt, told the Morning News. The game was televised nationally on ESPN2. I always play to win when it comes to skin and boneīut sometimes I say things I shouldn't.There was no word on his condition, according to ESPN. When I'm standing in the middle of the diamond all alone "You take a team with twenty-five assholes and I'll show you a pennant. "You should enter a ballpark the way you enter a church." Therefore, left-handers are the only people in their right minds." Source: Sports Illustrated (April 7, 1980) The left side controls the right side of your body and right controls the left half. "You have two hemispheres in your brain - a left and a right side. All this makes Boston fans a little crazy and I'm sorry for them." Source: Late Innings (Roger Angell) "There's nothing in the world like the fatalism of the Red Sox fans, which has been bred into them for generations by that little green ballpark, and the wall, and by a team that keeps trying to win by hitting everything out of sight and just out-bombarding everyone else in the league. Its all mixed together.' I heard a story about a 13-year-old Warren Zevon drinking Scotch with Igor Stravinsky. All through the sixties I tested everything." ![]() I said I believed in drug testing a long time ago. "The other day they asked me about mandatory drug testing. "The only rule I got is if you slide, get up." Source: USA Today (October 25, 1989) "The more self-centered and egotistical a guy is, the better ballplayer he's going to be." "The designated gerbil (nickname given to Don Zimmer by Spaceman Lee)." They gave us Mickey Mouse watches that ran backwards." I can get off on a really good helmet throw." Source: The Baseball Card Engagement Book (1990) For years pitchers have been getting these managers out 75% of the time and that's why they don't like us." "Kids don't learn the fundamentals of baseball at the games anymore." Straighten out baseball, and you straighten out the rest of the world." Source: Los Angeles Times (February 3, 1977) Baseball is the belly-button of our society. "I would change policy, bring back natural grass and nickel beer. When that happens it won't matter if I get this guy out." The earth will turn into a giant snowball and be hurled through space. A few million years from now the sun will burn out and lose its gravitational pull. "I think about the cosmic snowball theory. I threw him his last home run and thought I'd be remembered forever. "I'm mad at Hank (Aaron) for deciding to play one more season. I'd have Van Gogh'ed him." Source: Five Seasons (Roger Angell) "If it had been me out there, I'd had bitten him his ear off. "Hell, if KY jelly went off the market, the whole California Angels pitching staff would be out of baseball." "Do they leave it (Fenway's Green Monster) there during the game?" ![]()
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