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To: flying_bullet
Don’t forget Carl Yastrzemski.
You sure you didn't mean Carlton Fisk? Yastrzemski never played for anyone but the Red Sox. (He could have, but didn't.) Fisk went to the White Sox after then-Red Sox general manager Hayward Sullivan---none too thrilled that Fisk and other pending Red Sox free agents called for getting paid what they deserved to be paid, whatever it was (something that had fallen through the Red Sox cracks after longtime owner Tom Yawkey died)---tried to stick it to Fisk by mailing him a contract offer timed to reach Fisk the day after the contract deadline in 1980. That made Fisk a free agent in the first place.

Not that Fisk didn't take his screwing from the White Sox in due course. He was dumped just a few days after he set the major league record for games caught. Not only that, the White Sox barred him from the clubhouse door when he tried to come congratulate his now-former teammates after they bagged the American League West.

95 posted on 04/07/2010 10:47:40 AM PDT by BluesDuke (Another brief interlude from the small apartment halfway up in the middle of nowhere in particular)
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To: BluesDuke

I was going for unforgettable names and the RED Sox was a double entendre given we’re talking about 0bama.


108 posted on 04/07/2010 11:38:14 AM PDT by flying_bullet (El Conservo tribe member)
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