![]() ![]() 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. If for no other reason, the Olde Towne Team’s folky entry scores points for the exquisitely evocative couplet, “Chewed-up sunflower seeds/ Blow a seven-run lead.There was no word on his condition, according to ESPN. “I get high as a kite/ I’m in the zone all alone, muthafucka ’cause I’m dyin’ tonight/ So I roll ’em up back to back, fat as I could/ You got beef with Styles P, I come to slide to the ’hood.” Now why, oh why, did family-friendly Fenway not let Manny use this as his at-bat song?Ī lo-fi trio consisting of a Sox fan, a Mets fan, and - gasp! - a Yankees fan, these dudes released a sprawling double-album this April, American League/National League, featuring 30 songs for all 30 major-league squads. Styles P, "Good Times (I Get High)" (2002) “Off the top of the dome, here’s my first offerin’/ MCs are slow on the defense like Offerman/ Check the lyrics out I’m balancin’/ I snatch your girl and take her to third base like John Valentin/ And then I’ll have you looking in the mirror/ I’ll throw you on the disabled list like Nomar Garciaparra/ And keep the shit sooo strong/ You’ll be like, ‘That’s the big man, like Mo Vaughn!’ ” ![]() (See also, “The Ballad of Bill Lee” by the Karl Hendricks Trio.) But he had cool friends and a home at the Eliot Lounge. With a guy like the Gerbil as his manager, the loquacious lefty never stood a chance. “You’re supposed to sit on your ass and nod at stupid things/ Man, that’s hard to do/ And if you don’t, they’ll screw you/ And if you do, they’ll screw you too.” Poor Spaceman. A Fenway crowd cheers as the singer screams: “Let’s make Boston America’s number one baseball city!/ Kill the hippies!/ Kill the hippies!” Here are a few more to add to your iPod.Įarth Opera, "The Red Sox Are Winning" (1968)īack in the heady days of the “Bosstown Sound,” the year after the Impossible Dream team had captured the hearts of blue-collar joes and the Hub’s longhaired youth (witness the photo in Glenn Stout’s Red Sox Century of the flower child toting a sign proclaiming THE RED SOX ARE BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE), this languorous, trippy nugget, flitting between psychedelia and vaudeville, used the Sox as a prism through which to view counterculture. And you’ve been sending good vibes to Peter Gammons every time you spin his new disc. (Maybe the Dropkicks can repurpose “Pipebomb on Lansdowne Street” to be played after every Manny home run?) You bought Bronson Arroyo’s CD the day it came out - and haven’t listened to it since. You know all about “Tessie” - both the Royal Rooters’ version that helped us win the World Series in 1903, and the Dropkick Murphys’ version that did the same in 2004. You stomp and howl when “Dirty Water” blares loud after the ninth. You cringe when the pink-hat bandwagoneers ba-ba-ba and so-good!-so-good!-so-good! along to “Sweet Caroline” in the eighth. ![]()
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