Word: bullpens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...found ample time to clown around. Carl Yastrzemski played a game of dodgeball, ducking out of the path of the ball a fraction of a second before it would hit him as it sailed in from the outfield. On the bullpen bench, outfielder Rick Miller and catcher Tim Blackwell engaged in a fierce game of hockey. Miller used the handle of a bat and shot a baseball forcing Blackwell to make some spectacular kick saves as well as a few tremendous diving saves. Blackwell also made good use of a rusty nail, poking his opponent to keep...
After the national anthem, the players in the bullpen had to sit down and pursue less vigorous activities, such as imitating the umpire and blowing bubbles. The home plate umpire bellowed his strike call very loudly, and Rick Miller imitated him for the first few innings. After becoming bored of that, Miller took to blowing huge bubblegum spheroids that would explode on his face...
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...
Then came grad school, where Varney gradually worked his way up from Class A to AA to AAA (in baseball grad school, they don't even give out B's, much less C's), and which eventually led to his place under the Florida sun on the White Sox bullpen bench in Sarasota...
...Dodgers, teams that take care of their own, life in the minor leagues can be lackluster. The big stadium is there--the hint of what could come in a wild dream--but the stands are usually near-empty; loudspeakers play "Knock Three Times" between innings and the "bullpen" is likely to be a bench near the left field line. The Eastern League has a grueling schedule, too: 40 games in 144 days, April 10 to September 1, no days off. Once in a great while a local reporter will approach Brayton, and produce a "Patrician Who Can Pitch!" story with...