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Bill Lee

For 14 years as a left-handed pitcher (1969-1982), ten with Boston and four with Montreal, Bill Lee was anything but a conventional major league ballplayer. His career record is 119-90, including three consecutive 17-win seasons with the Red Sox (1973-1975) and a 16-win season with the Expos in 1979. Bill Lee was selected to the American League All-Star squad in 1973 and pitched in the World Series in 1975 against the Cincinnati Reds.

Drafted by the Boston Red Sox in the 22nd round of the 1968 amateur draft following a brilliant college career at the University of Southern California, where he won a College World Series title, Bill Lee was called up to the major leagues less than 18 months after he was drafted. He became one of the game’s few counterculture symbols: he talked to animals, championed environmental causes, practiced yoga, ate health foods, pondered Einstein and Vonnegut, quoted from Mao, and studied Eastern philosophers and mystics. It was in this context that former Red Sox teammate John Kennedy first dubbed him “Spaceman,” a nickname writers thereafter used as shorthand to describe his free spirit.

Bill Lee resides in Vermont, where he tends to a farm and continues to play baseball regularly. Bill Lee still has a cult following in New England, and is one of the most popular Red Sox players of all time.

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The Wrong Stuff

The Wrong Stuff

In this wildly funny memoir that became a massive bestseller in the United States and Canada when it was first published, Lee recounts the colorful story of his life—from the drugged-out antics of his college days at USC (where he learned that “marijuana never hammered me like a good Camel”) to his post–World Series travels with a group of liberal long-distance runners through Red China (where he discovered that conservatives don’t like marathons because “it’s much easier to climb into a Rolls-Royce”). Lee also describes his minor league days, joining the Reserves during the Vietnam War, his time with the Red Sox, and the 1975 World Series. He spares no detail while recalling his infamous falling-out with Red Sox management that led to his trade to Montreal.

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Baseball Eccentrics: The Most Entertaining, Outrageous, and Unforgettable Characters in the Game

Baseball Eccentrics: The Most Entertaining, Outrageous, and Unforgettable Characters in the Game

Baseball Eccentrics is a celebration of the characters who have graced the game over the years, as told by one of the biggest of them all. Bill Lee also decries the scarcity of interesting personalities in today's game and examines some of the root causes for this lack of spontaneity. His hilarious collection is a tribute to flakes past and also a call to today's players to loosen up and have some fun.

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Have Glove, Will Travel: Adventures of a Baseball Vagabond

Have Glove, Will Travel: Adventures of a Baseball Vagabond

Have Glove, Will Travel is the chronicle of an amazing odyssey that began more than twenty years ago and continues today. Unable to live without baseball, Lee went anywhere he could find a game, beginning in the dank and dreary locker room of a Canadian hockey team that later became a softball team. We follow him around the world as he competes in pickup games, town tournaments, senior leagues, and fantasy camps, barnstorming like a modern Satchel Paige around the United States, South America, China, Cuba, Russia, and every province in Canada.

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