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Mike Trombley.   Terrible player but I managed to turn him into an 24 game winner in Triple Play 99.

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Lyman Bostock.   **** you, Calvin Griffith.

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Pete Hamm. 6 foot 5 right handed pitcher in 1970 and 1971.   Started 8 games in 1971 and was 2 and 4 with a 6.75 ERA.  Batted .273 with a double and run scored in 12 plate appearances. Not sure if his season was cut short because he had a bad finger, which reminds me to tell you to not confuse him with Pete Ham, who wrote the classic songs "No Matter What", "Day After Day", "Baby Blue" and "Without You."

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One of my favorites Lyman Bostock.    Overshadowed by Carew much like one of my other favorites Shane Mack was overshadowed by Puckett.    Bostock had a .318 average in his 3 years with the Twins.

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Danny Thompson.   Traded with Blyleven to Texas but then shortly dies of Leukemia. 

 

Hmm looking over the ones I remember.    Bostock, Thompson, Eisenreich, Castino.   Two died tragically after leaving the Twins and 2 had good careers that could have been much better but for medical issues.

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 A buddy from college invited me to a cocktail party at his folk's plush new condo in Edina. His mom took me around to meet her guests, and introduced me to June Allison, who punched the shoulder of the guy next to her and said, "Bob, be polite!" Learned to like Manhattans that evening, and spared Bob from talk about the joy he gave a boy listening to games on his Philco transistor radio a decade earlier.

 

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Remembering Bostock led me to checking him out on Wiki.     Interesting guy.   Didn't play his first two years in college (choosing student activism instead) but somehow was still drafted by the Cards.    Played the next two college seasons and was drafted by the Twins.    Runner up to the batting title to Carew's monster year and was 4th after Carew, McCrae and Brett another year.    Controversy for that title I believe.   Was one of the first free agents but when he got off to a bad start offered to return his salary and when refused by the Angels,  personally reviewed thousands of requests from charities so he could donate the salary of that bad month.   He was still the leading hitter on the team by the end of the season.   Then got shot by the husband of a woman he had just met 20 minutes earlier because the guy mistakenly thought they were having an affair based only on them getting in a car together.    

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