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Sparky Lyle brought his left-handed stubbornness out of the Yankee bullpen on October 8, 1977 in game four of the American League Championship Series at Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City.
The box score is courtesy of Baseball-Reference.com.
The history is part of the lore of Billy Martin and the swashbuckling 1977 Yankees, perhaps a true sixties team in the skewed time warp called big league baseball.
The New York Times recorded the afternoon antics of Joba Chamberlain and the New York Yankees. I spent a splendid afternoon underground with the team via the booming AM signal from Rochester. Cementing a long-neglected basement wall, in front of winter, took all nine innings.
Thoughts of grace, bliss , mortality and stone-mix all agreeably co-habited.
#1672 1:56:49.5 STAGG, BARRY TORONTO 1140/1984 105/178 Men 50 - 54
Major League Baseball on Internet Radio is the science fiction of 1968 now an ordinary reality ignored by the blase and the underinformed. Live culture is broadcast in its pristine form.
CBC News: N.L. schools to shut early for Olympic curling final: Shades of Paul Henderson and the Showdown at the Kremlin 1972.
Les Expos de Montreal - The Montreal Expos
Larry Jaster, Coco Laboy, Don Bosch, Mack Jones, Jose Herrera, Bobby Wine, Claude Raymond, John Boccabella..................................
Phil Rizzuto Statistics - Baseball-Reference.com:
Debut April 14, 1941
Final Game August 16, 1956
Born September 25, 1917 in Brooklyn, NY
At eighty-seven years of age when he attends this weekend's Oldtimers Day at Yankee Stadium, Scooter is a treasure both as a player and an inimitable radio announcer for the Bronx Bombers.
Link: Baseball-Reference.com .
3B Coco Laboy:
G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO BA
157 562 53 145 29 1 18 83 40 96 .258
The New York Times : Nationals Are Hurting, and It's Not Even April.
"The Nationals, heretofore known as Les Expos de Montreal, are just about through their first spring training. They have six exhibition games left - five in Florida and the sixth in their new home park against the Mets next Sunday. Then they open their first season Monday in Philadelphia, which served as the nation's capital before Washington."
This is proof enough that the days of Coco Laboy and Don Hahn are long, long gone.
The New York Times helpfully provides respite from these frozen days with news of baseball planning by one of their local teams:
NEW YORK YANKEES--Agreed to terms with LHP Danny Borrell, INF Homer Bush, INF Caonabo Cosme, C Joe Depastino, OF Doug Glanville, OF Noah Hall, C Ryan Hankins, INF Russ Johnson, C David Parrish, OF Colin Porter, C Irwil Rojas, INF Damian Rolls, C Omir Santos, RHP Aaron Small, C Jon-Mark Sprowl, RHP Marc Valdes, OF Mike Vento and RHP Brad Voyles on minor league contracts.
