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Wednesday, June 2, 2021

"Former Dodgers star reliever Mike Marshall dies at 78 -"

 "In 1974, as the Dodgers' top relief pitcher, he appeared in 106 games, still the major league record. He pitched in all five games of the World Series that year, including a memorable pickoff of Herb Washington, the track star the Oakland Athletics signed for the sole purpose of pinch-running...
"They just didn't want my ideas to get in," Marshall told The Times. "That's ridiculous. But that's the small-mindedness of Major League Baseball. They don't know what the hell they're doing. And if I get in, everybody will know that they don't know what the hell they're doing."
https://www.latimes.com/sports/dodgers/story/2021-06-01/la-sp-mlb-mike-marshall-dies-dodgers-cy-young