Bill "Spaceman" Lee, on Blue Jays fever and bringing pro ball back to Montreal
Blue Jays Fever: One of baseball's most colourful, outspoken characters, pitcher Bill "The Spaceman" Lee, joins Michael to talk Jays, World Series hopes, and Canada's renewed passion for the game.
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Third baseman Josh Donaldson steals a base, and demonstrates why the Blue Jays may be in contention for the World Series for the first time in 22 years. (Tom Szczerbowski/Getty Images)
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For the first time since 1993, a Canadian baseball team will be playing games in October. Playoff games, that is. And one person who'll be cheering lustily for them is Bill Lee, otherwise known as The Spaceman. He won 119 games in 14 seasons as a pitcher for the Boston Red Sox and the Montreal Expos. And he holds the record as the oldest pitcher ever to win a professional game, which he did at the age of 67, pitching for the Sonoma Stompers.
Considered one of baseball's most colourful, outspoken characters, pitcher Bill Lee, joins Michael to talk Jays, World Series hopes, and Canada's renewed passion for the game.
Bill "The Spaceman" Lee in our CBC Montreal studio, in conversation with Michael Enright (in studio in Toronto) in 2015. (Credit: Susan McKenzie)
Bill 'Spaceman' Lee fires a pitch during a 1979 game for the Montreal Expos.
