Darin Lee

There used to be a time when the local paper had every single high school call in their scores with complete box scores for every team. Those times were glorious. Now you can't even find final scores and have no idea who the best scorers are if you're not all the way plugged in

"Auggie Busch traded me to the last-place Phillies over a $5000 salary dispute. I was mentally committed to winning 25 games with the Cardinals and now I had to re-think my goals. I decided to stay with the 25-win goal, and won 27 of the Phillies 59 victories". Steve Carlton, 1972. Carlton was 27-10 with a 1.97 ERA, for a last-place Philadelphia team!! Cardinals' owner, Auggie Busch had temper tantrum because Steve Carlton wouldn't agree to the club's contract terms. Ordered by Busch to trade Carlton, GM Bing Devine dealt Carlton to the Phillies for another pitcher, Rick Wise, 1972. "Steve Carlton had a way of elevating everyone’s game, even the year we were horrendous. He was never indecisive on the mound. Before the game, he’d go over the hitters and say, ‘This is how I’m going to pitch and this is where I want you to play him.’ He had a game plan of how to pitch to each hitter and he stuck to it. And he wanted you in a certain spot, and if they didn’t hit it there, it was his responsibility. That’s how he wanted it." Larry Bowa.