Bill Lee (1) (1946–)

I grew up as a Yankee fan during the time Lee was pitching for the hated Red Sox. Didn't like him because he was a "spaceman", and he played for the Red Sox. Then I saw him on Burns' documentary on baseball. I loved the interviews with Lee, so I decided to read this book. What a treat. I love baseball, and Lee's love for the game came through in his highly humorous story telling. And, he knows baseball. I don't have much in common with Lee other than the love of the game, but I feel like I show more found a friend in this book, and with his other writings and interviews. show less

It's a very funny book, but the revised history is inconsistent from chapter to chapter. The book was also a bit too anti-New York for my liking.

Maybe the best of the second wave of tell all/locker room story baseball books to come out in the wake of Ball Four. Funny stuff.

In the wake of the Red Sox loss to the White Sox, I decided to revisit the past and read Bill Lee‘s autobiography, written with Dick Lally. Lee pitched for the Red Sox during the years that I became a baseball fan. This twenty-year old book is a breezy, amusing recollection of baseball in the seventies. Lee and Lally just wrote another book that will also go on my list of books to read.

Published in hardback by Viking Press.