AAAHE WASTED THE TALENT THAT IS WORTH MILLIONS!!eteamz is part of Active Networketeamz Your online team sports community PICK YOUR SPORT Baseball Basketball Cheerleading Football HockeyIce Lacrosse Soccer SoftballFastpitch SoftballSlowpitch Volleyball More Sports General Web Sites Online Registration Fundraising Community Shopping eteamz Login Find Your Sport Become a Member Testimonials Take the Tour Customer Support Company Info Find a Team or League MessageCast Spotlight Sites Collect Fees Online Registration Search Active Giving Traditional Fundraising eteamz Buddy Blogz Newz Message Boards Tips and Drills Tournaments Camps and Clinics SnapShotz TeamAdvantage Prep Sportswear Web Site Admins Online Registration Message Center TeamAdvantage Message Boards back to boards search help! AAAHE WASTED THE TALENT THAT IS WORTH MILLIONS!!Back to BoardTotal Views 292 Total Replies 0 Print This PostNext Topic Reply to this Message Report Abuse Display Mode Flat Threaded Nickname HenrysBaseballClub Posts 980 Member Since 21004 Posted 12102009 1049pmViews 292Replies 0 AAAHE WASTED THE TALENT THAT IS WORTH MILLIONS!! A LEFTY POWER PITCHER THE LIKES THAT NO PERSON HAD EVER SEEN IN BASEBALL WAS ALWAYS GETTING INTO TROUBLE HE WAS THE LEADER OF THE PACK THERE WERE RADAR GUNS IN THOSE DAYS BUT NOT READELY AVAILABLE LIKE TODAY ABOUT 30 YEARS AGO I TOOK HIM TO A TECHER AT WATERTOWN HS WHO HAD PLAYED AAA PRO BASEBALLHE LATER BECAME A SCOUT WITH THE RED SOX DICK BARADINO WAS KIND TO THIS PLAYER AND EXPLAINED THAT HE HAD HEARD ABOUT HIS BASEBALL ABILITIES BUT THAT HE NEEDED TO GET ALONG WITH PLAYERS UMPIRES AND PEOPLE THAT THERE ARE PLAYERS WITH A MILLION DOLLAR BODY BUT A 10 CENT HEAD THAT THE PLAYER WITH LITTLE SKILL WOULD LOVE TO HAVE THE MILLION DOLLAR BODY AND MAKE MILLIONS OF DOLLARS RICK SAID HE UNDERSTOOD BUT LATER THAT NIGHT DINKS AND PILLS WERE IN HIS POSSESION I TALKED TO THE TEAM IN LYNN THAT WAS AT THAT TIME THE LYNN SAILORS TOLD HIM THAT IF HE IS SOBER THAT HE IS BETTER THAN ANY PITCHER HE HAD THERE AS THERE WERE PEOPLE THAT SAID HE THREW ABOUT 98 MPH IF HE WAS ON RICK WAS 64 225 LBS THICK STONG LEGS AND INCREDIBLE FLEXEBILITY TO THROW A FOOTBALL 75 YRDS WAS A FLICK OF THE WRIST AND THERE WERE TIMES THAT HE STRUCK OUT THE SIDE BUT HE HAD 3 PLAYERS ON THE BASES AS THE CATCHER MISSED MOST OF THE BALLSHE SAID THEY CAME IN SO HARD THAT HE HAD NO CHANCE TO PUT THE GLOVE SO HE WOULD HAVE TO SLOW THE THROWS DOWN OR LOOSE THE GAME WELL GETTING BACK TO HIS TRYOUT THE OWNER OF THE TEAM IN LYNN SAID BRIMG HIM TO LYNN AND IN AT THE END OF THE FIRST GAME WE WILL TRY HIM OUT IN THE BULLPEN BETWEEN THE DOUBLE HEADER IF HE IS EVEN HALF OF WHAT YOU SAY I WILL SIGN HIM ON THE SPOT HE SAID UNFORTUNATELY RICK KILLED HIS CHANCES ONCE AGAIN AS HE HAD EARLIER IN THE DAY HE HAD GONE TO A WEDING AND WAS DRUNK SO ANOTHER CH...