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Bill "Spaceman" Lee
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1966 Alaska Goldpanners
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Full Name	William Frances Lee III
Position	Starting Pitcher
Out of	Southern California
B/T ; H/W	L/L ; 6-3/210
Born	12/28/1946 (Capricorn)
Birthplace	Burbank, CA
1968 Draft	22nd Rd., 507th Overall (BOS)

Starting Pitcher: 1967 & 2008 Midnight Sun Games
1966-67 Goldpanners Career .346 Hitter

6/22/8:Bill Lee (66-67-08) Lee true to form as Panners shine in midnight sun "Bill “Spaceman” Lee walked off the field with a cigar in his mouth, a grin on his face and another win on his record after the Midnight Sun Game this morning."

Bill Lee (66-67-08)

6/21/8: Bill Lee (66-67-08) Wins Midnight Sun Game (all time msg record 1-1)
6/21/8: One small slip leads to one big win for the Goldpanners

Boston Red Sox Hall of Fame - Class of 2008
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"Bill Lee said in answer to Jim Prime's question about what had made him an eccentric replied, “I used to play for the Alaska Goldpanners, and when you play on permafrost, and it warms and your centerfielder disappears, that leads to eccentricity.”

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1967 Midnight Sun Game
5/19/7: The Spaceman Cometh “Steroids?” Lee said. “I see that our cows in Vermont are being injected with too much BST . . . There are more drugs in our food supply than there are in Barry Bonds. A red herring. It’s wagging the dog, because we don’t want to address that the drug companies control our thing. And the fact that BALCO is the little guy, being squashed by Merck and Upjohn and all the big companies. As they say in Deep Throat, follow the money.”
2/9/6: So Long, Tiger: Coaching Legend Dedeaux Dies at 91 "His final championship came in 1978, and in all he coached 59 big leaguers. The list includes Hall of Fame pitcher Tom Seaver, as well as future Hall of Famers Randy Johnson and Mark McGwire, Dave Kingman and Bill “Spaceman” Lee.
10/14/3: Push comes to shove for Zim "I said I'm sorry, but the only thing I'm sorry about is that I didn't knock that skinny little SOB's butt clear into the Charles River. And I would have done it, too, if he hadn't caught me off guard and tripped me. I was expecting him to put up his dukes and fight like a real man would do in that situation and instead he pulls some shifty little move you wouldn't expect from a 10-year-old girl or even Bill Lee. "
5/1/3: Are Lefties really looney?
2/20/3: Still livid at Zimmer for Gopher-ball game slight

6/22/2: Chats with Todd MacFarlane (bottom of first page)
5/11/2: 27 Goldpanners - 4 roster signees make Allan Simpson's "Fab Fives" list, recounting best of MLB drafts (subscription) 1965 - Rick Monday, Graig Nettles; 1966 - Tom Seaver; 1968 - Pete Broberg, Bill Lee; 1969 - Bob Boone; 1970 - Steve Dunning, Dave Kingman; 1972 - Dave Roberts; 1973 - David Clyde (73R), Dave Winfield, Eddie Bane, Jim Sundberg; 1974 - Jim Umbarger; 1976 - Floyd Bannister, Pete Redfern, Steve Kemp; 1979 - Tim Leary, Tim Wallach; 1980 - Darryl Strawberry (80R), Greg Harris, Terry Francona; 1981 - Joe Carter (80R); 1983 - Roger Clemens (83R); 1984 - Oddibe McDowell; 1985 - Barry Bonds; 1986 - Mike Harkey; 1991 - Mike Kelly; 1992 - Jason Giambi; 1995 - Jose Cruz Jr.;

4/14/1: Expos Applaud Return of "The Spaceman" "Lee was on especially poor terms with his former Montreal manager Jim Fanning, who, in 1981, had discounted Lee for Steve Rogers in the fateful Game 5 of the NLCS; in what would come to be known as "Blue Monday," Rogers entered a 1-1 game as a reliever instead of Lee, and served up a deciding home run to Rick Monday (64) that ended the Expos' best hopes of reaching the World Series."
1/13/1: Twenty-five years later, that pitch by Bill Lee (66-67) still topic of discussion

1966 Goldpanners

Goldpanners Statistics 1966-1967

Batting Stats

YEAR	G	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	SAC	HP	AVG
1966	12	23	2	4	2	0	0	3	1	8	0	0	0	.174
1967	14	29	6	14	2	1	1	6	0	7	1	2	0	.483
TOTALS	26	52	8	18	4	1	1	9	1	15	1	2	0	.346

Pitching Stats

Position	Year	ERA	G	GS	CG	So	W	L	Sv	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
LHP	1966	1.35	12	4	2	1	4	2	2	60.1	43	12	9	20	58
LHP	1967	2.25	14	13	6	1	7	4	1	84	66	31	21	45	83
LHP	2008	6.00	1	1	0	0	1	0	0	6	8	4	4		5
	Career	1.87	27	18	8	2	12	6	3	150.1	117	47	34	65	146

Fielding Stats

PITCHERS
	G	PO	A	E	TC	DP	Pct.
1967	14	6	17	4	27	0	.852

1960s All-Stars

1966: Standing: Rich Ganulin (c), Pat Harrison (of), Ron Shotts (if), Bill Lee (p), Don Rose (1b), Bill Seinsoth (1b), Mike Adamson (p), Bob Boone (3b), Rod Poteete (p) and Bob Gallagher (of). Kneeling: Jim Nettles (of), Buzz Shafer (of), Greg Garrett (p), Tom House (p), Manager H.A. (Red) Boucher, Lyle Olsen (if-coa), Emmitt Wilson (if), Shelly Andrens (of), Russ Schafer (2b) and Jim Corbin (equip).

Topps Baseball Cards

1970 (Rookie)	1971	1972
1973	1974	1975
1976	1977	1979

2000 Shrine of the Eternal

“You’re supposed to sit on your ass and nod at stupid things
Man that’s hard to do
And if you don’t they’ll screw you
And if you do, they’ll screw you too
When I’m standing in the middle of he diamond all alone
I always play to win
When it comes to skin and bond
And sometimes I say things I shouldn’t
Like…
And sometimes I say things I shouldn’t
Like…”

--“Bill Lee” by Warren Zevon

You should enter a ballpark the way you enter a church.
Hell, if KY jelly went off the market, the whole California Angels pitching staff would be out of baseball.
I think about the cosmic snowball theory. A few million years from now the sun will burn out and lose its gravitational pull. The earth will turn into a giant snowball and be hurled through space. When that happens it won't matter if I get this guy out.
I would change policy, bring back natural grass and nickel beer. Baseball is the belly-button of our society. Straighten out baseball, and you straighten out the rest of the world.
Most of the managers are lifetime .220 hitters. For years pitchers have been getting these managers out 75% of the time and that's why they don't like us.
I'm mad at Hank Aaron for deciding to play one more season. I threw him his last home run and thought I'd be remembered forever. Now, I'll have to throw him another.
If it had been me out there, I'd had bitten him his ear off. I'd have Van Gogh'ed him.
Kids don't learn the fundamentals of baseball at the games anymore.
People are too hung up on winning. I can get off on a really good helmet throw.
The more self-centered and egotistical a guy is, the better ballplayer he's going to be.
That was real baseball. We weren't playing for money. They gave us Mickey Mouse watches that ran backwards.
The only rule I got is if you slide, get up.
The other day they asked me about mandatory drug testing. I said I believed in drug testing a long time ago. All through the sixties I tested everything.
There's nothing in the world like the fatalism of the Red Sox fans, which has been bred into them for generations by that little green ballpark, and the wall, and by a team that keeps trying to win by hitting everything out of sight and just out-bombarding everyone else in the league. All this makes Boston fans a little crazy and I'm sorry for them.
You take a team with twenty-five assholes and I'll show you a pennant. I'll show you the New York Yankees.

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