Literary birthday greetings: The Spaceman

December 28, 2010

Bill Lee turns 64 today. The flaky, quirky, “spacey” lefty had an interesting 14-year major league career, to put it mildly, including being called on the carpet by Commissioner Bowie Kuhn for admitting to sprinkling marijuana on his pancakes.

Books by and about Lee include:

Also marking a birthday today: “Sunday Teddy” Lyons, born in 1900. Lyons pitched for 21 years, all for the Chicago White Sox, missing the 1943-45 seasons for military service. He made a brief comeback in 1946 before taking over as the team’s manager until 1948.

Lyons, who won 230 games (and also lost 230), was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1955. Towards the end of his career, he took to pitching only on Sundays, thereby earning his nickname.

With all this said, how can there not be a book about him? Seems like a natural for McFarland.

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