9th Annual Charity Game: 100 Innings of Baseball for ALS (Lou Gehrig’s Disease)
This year marks the 9th Annual 100 Innings of Baseball Game for ALS (also known as Lou Gehrig’s Disease). The approximate 150 adult amateur players will step up to the plate on Saturday October 20th and will continue playing 100 consecutive innings of baseball. Players come from more than a dozen amateur baseball leagues across […]
Seeing Lee Is Well Worth the Journey
One of my favorite former ballplayers is pitcher Bill Lee. Lee pitched for the Boston Red Sox and the Montreal Expos from 1969-1982. He was also blacklisted from Major League Baseball for standing up for his teammates. The Expos released one of Lee’s teammates, Rodney Scott. Lee and Scott were friends, and Lee thought that Scott was […]
Bill Lee Pitched for the 2010 Brockton Rox
Apparently, former Red Sox pitcher Bill “The Spaceman” Lee recurred his role this year as a member of the Brockton Rox (an independant League Baseball team in Brockton, MA), albeit for just one game. He is now listed as being inactive, but did win in his only appearance of the season (in the last game […]
Amazon VOD “SPACEMAN: A BASEBALL ODYSSEY”
Image by Paul Keleher via Flickr I recently was asked to help promote a documentary that was just released on Amazon VOD. It’s called SPACEMAN: A BASEBALL ODYSSEY. Here’s the synopsis: “Throughout the 1970’s, Bill Lee was the ultimate gonzo baseball player, a brilliant left-handed pitcher who flouted every manager orfront office executive who tried […]
