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With a 66-77 career record and a 4.59 ERA, Schourek was a journeyman who played on five teams, endured four elbow operations, and was out of organized baseball by age 32—and so the fact that he has wound up in the opposing dugout of a recreational league in Northern Virgina isn’t causing too many heads to turn...
...writer-director Craig Brewer, 33, the film's July 13 release is the culmination of a five-year odyssey of slammed doors, we'll-call-yous and try-it-our-ways. Cast a rap star in the lead role, not a journeyman actor with zero marquee wattage. Make it in Los Angeles, not in your hometown. And, the Hollywood whisper went, could you please not be a white guy? Taylor Hackford had run up against similar prejudices in the 15 years it took him to make Ray. As Brewer recalls, "I'm sitting there sweating bullets, thinking...
Landrum also had an opposite number, though a teammate in this case, the pitcher in whose cause he hit that home run, twice-traded but miraculously redone Lefthander John Tudor, 31. A tip from an old high school teammate is the delightful explanation for his resurrection from journeyman to 21-game winner, though the expanse of the Busch Stadium outfield, not to mention the outfielders themselves, must have had something to do with it. No matter how splendidly he pitches, Tudor seems to have difficulty enjoying it. While Landrum kept singing, "Boy, you should have seen the dugout vibrating; something...
Couple these moves with the countless jerseys worn by the average journeyman role player, and we see a league that, more than any that of other professional sport, is increasingly difficult for the average fan to keep up with...
...Major Leaguer would not describe a journeyman like Clapp or most of his teammates, but he has had his moments, including the game-winning hit in the 1999 Pan American Games. Clapp would like to have another big moment on the international stage-and end the season signing autographs in Canadian shopping malls...