None. Too much baseball. For the Red Sox wrap-up, go here; for the Marlins, go here.
While watching that incredible Sox-A's game yesterday, I finished reading Koufax, by Jane Leavy. It's a very good biography of the pitcher, but it's also an interesting study of what Koufax did (not by design, it seems) for American Jews by not pitching the first game of the 1965 World Series, which was scheduled on Yom Kippur.
Another interesting item she covers: while Koufax and Drysdale held out for more money prior to the 1966 season (collectively; that's what was new about this players' holdout), Marvin Miller was travelling the spring training camps stumping for a more active players' union, and the action by the Dodgers' two star pitchers was topic number one among the players. Leavy calls this the first baby steps of the free agent revolution, followed later by Curt Flood's reserve clause lawsuit and the Seitz arbitration decision giving Andy Messersmith and Dave McNally the right to offer their services to all major league teams. I'd never thought of that before, but she's right. Koufax himself calls it a union, albeit a small one. It's a good book.
Posted by Linkmeister at October 5, 2003 09:01 AMApropos of nothing, David Smith, prominently featured in Leavy's Koufax book, is a good friend of mine. I don't recall whether the book talks about Dave's extraordinary contribution to the study of baseball, Retrosheet.
Posted by: N in Seattle at October 5, 2003 09:23 AM