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Originally Posted by NCBeachBum
One more reason to root for Pat and Bill's Sox to win a game: getting the chance to see Fiery Wes Farrell shred his glove for 30 minutes or destroy the locker room for an hour afterwards.
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Ferrell might get a Game Four start, because he's the #4 starter for the Reds. He's still young, and as they did in the days of Roy Hitt and Del Mason, the Reds have gotten tremendous mileage out of a collection of "surprise stars."
The staff ace,
Marv Gudat, saw most of his limited action in "real" baseball as a position player. The next best Reds starter,
Harlan Pyle, pitched badly in exactly two "real" major league games. The third starter is
Benny Frey, who had a much better career than either Gudat or Pyle...which really isn't saying much.
I probably could have eliminated stories like those of Gudat, Frey, and Pyle by using one of Ankit's databases, but I found that I enjoyed the possibility of seeing guys like that turn into legends in Pat's universe.