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Bill (Spaceman) Lee to square off against NSSBL champs
Posted by Jody Jewers on
Oct 29 2008
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05:00PM PDT
The reigning Nova Scotia Senior Baseball League champion Halifax Pelham Canadians will be facing a team comprised of Pelham Canadians alumni on Saturday, Nov. 1, at 1 p.m. at the Mainland Common in Halifax.
Toeing the rubber for the alumni will be none other than 14-year Major League Baseball veteran Bill (Spaceman) Lee, who played in the NSSBL with the Moncton Mets and Sydney Sooners.
The crafty southpaw is a three-time 17-game winner with the Boston Red Sox, with whom he threw from 1969-78. Lee spent the final four years of his MLB career with the Montreal Expos, winning 16 games in 1979. He posted a career record of 119-90 with a 3.92 earned-run average and 713 strikeouts.
The 61-year-old Lee made a mound appearance in June, when he threw six-plus innings and picked up the win for the Alaska Goldpanners in a 10-6 victory over the Southern California Running Birds in Fairbanks, Alaska, during the annual Midnight Sun game played on the night of the summer solstice, when the sun is only below the horizon for about an hour.
Lee, the chairman-for-life of the Bluenose BoSox Brotherhood, has penned four books, run for president of the United States, and been the subject of a documentary film. He will be at Boston Pizza in Dartmouth Crossing at 5 p.m., for a fundraising dinner, auction, autograph and Q&A session, with proceeds for the IWK Children's Hospital and minor baseball.
Tickets are $10 and are available through Don Hyslop at hyslop@av.eastlink.ca.
Toeing the rubber for the alumni will be none other than 14-year Major League Baseball veteran Bill (Spaceman) Lee, who played in the NSSBL with the Moncton Mets and Sydney Sooners.
The crafty southpaw is a three-time 17-game winner with the Boston Red Sox, with whom he threw from 1969-78. Lee spent the final four years of his MLB career with the Montreal Expos, winning 16 games in 1979. He posted a career record of 119-90 with a 3.92 earned-run average and 713 strikeouts.
The 61-year-old Lee made a mound appearance in June, when he threw six-plus innings and picked up the win for the Alaska Goldpanners in a 10-6 victory over the Southern California Running Birds in Fairbanks, Alaska, during the annual Midnight Sun game played on the night of the summer solstice, when the sun is only below the horizon for about an hour.
Lee, the chairman-for-life of the Bluenose BoSox Brotherhood, has penned four books, run for president of the United States, and been the subject of a documentary film. He will be at Boston Pizza in Dartmouth Crossing at 5 p.m., for a fundraising dinner, auction, autograph and Q&A session, with proceeds for the IWK Children's Hospital and minor baseball.
Tickets are $10 and are available through Don Hyslop at hyslop@av.eastlink.ca.
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