Bill Lee - Red Sock LHP.

[@bennyvega100]

"My best pitch is a strike." Well said, Bill.

[@michaelcameron5531]

I’m losing count of how many times I’ve watched this.

[@towhee89]

Wish there was more of Bill Lee lmao

[@grimeypipes2765]

" then you go to a cross seam fastball...which I don't have" God bless u Bill!

[@SuperStrik9]

"He had pigeon shit on his shoulders cause he was already a statue" LMAO!

[@usa_dumpsterfire]

"fill it with oil and check the gas" 😂

[@manuginobilisbaldspot424]

One of my favorite parts of Ken Burns' Baseball...long live the Spaceman!

[@bucknuts8824]

I could listen to that dude talk all day

[@thanesladek9901]

I've watched this dozens and dozens of times over the course of like two years, and I genuinely have no idea why.

[@BloodoperaBlackvomit]

Because we love the game.

[@dalanbronnenberg]

I do……….

[@alkaline933]

Classic Lee - great. I'm from Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada. He played Senior baseball there after Montreal (the caliber is somewhere in between A and AA). Funny story...I saw a game he was pitching where some bean-ball was going back in forth between teams. It was Moncton's turn to retaliate. Everyone knows what's coming and in the middle of his wind-up he shouts "Look Out!" and plunks the guy right in the back. Too funny. :-)

[@KEVINKEVINKEVINWWW]

This is the best monologue in the entire beautiful series.

[@lovephillies1]

If I had a dollar for every time I've watched this, I'd have about thirty dollars.

[@michaeljacobson3605]

I have played against him in senior men’s baseball. He still throws the ball about 70 mph at the age of 69. Struck one of my teammates out on a curve ball the likes of which he had never seen before.

[@musicsupervisor]

“Everybody knows I don’t believe in strikeouts. They’re fascist,” Lee said. “I believe in ground balls, they’re more democratic. Everybody gets to play.”

[@derekobrien5481]

Was that Lee's quote originally? Kevin Costner said something similar in Bull Durham.

[@lb2455]

Ahhh, Bull Durham must have stolen that, that's awesome!!

[@gagebyers1057]

He says while wearing a CCCP hat…

[@RichS-jy7sb]

Yeah. Bill Lee. Mr. "I'm far left. I'm a liberal. I'm against any form of racism or discrimination". Bill Lee. Who makes his home in lily-white Craftsbury, Vermont which is more than 90% white and has zero blacks. Typical liberal hypocrite.

[@ernestcruz6316]

​@@derekobrien5481Bill Lee said that in his book The Wrong Stuff, which was published years before they filmed Bull Durham.

[@towhee89]

This makes me wanna read his book.

[@chrisweidner4768]

It’s worth it. Read it when it came out.

[@michaelmarshall8080]

Lee wrote in his book, "I once walked Al Kaline on five straight strikes."

[@almostfm]

It's like an umpire once said to a catcher who complained that the zone was getting squeezed when Ted Williams was batting: "Mr. Williams will let you know when it is a strike."

[@Trudeau7900]

Bill Lee with a Soviet Union cap on. I love it. And that quote about Al Kaline is the best. . . .

[@loganfulk1710]

What an absolute legend

[@NancyScrivens]

The most entertaining baseball player of all time!!!

[@salpfeffer4301]

long live The Spaceman!

[@ashland1977]

He's awesome

[@ostryer90684]

"Filled of oïl, check the gas." Ha! Ha! Ha!

[@parklloyd6690]

Missed that the first time. Thanks!

[@maxprize829]

Love that 78 Sox team - golden era of baseball - need to mention Fisk, Rice, Hobson and Remy

[@Trudeau7900]

Bill Lee with a Soviet Union cap on. I love it.

[@johndeagle4389]

You love it? Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn didn't like it. Jackass!

[@pooky1959]

My 62 Chevy with 180,000 miles. I’d say, “fill it with oil and check the gas” 😂

[@shanenolan085]

5:14 Tony Perez with that 2 run homer is STILL one my favorite grand slams 💯💯👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿⚾️⚾️

[@onedirections1172]

100% Baseball guy! I have a baseball poem. It's written in the character of Casey Stangel. He spoke Stangelezzz, to players and sports reporters. His articulations of baseball plays were easily understood by players. However, at times, his words may have required explanations. If you seek out more Intel from Yogi Berra you got more of the same language, only a variation on phrases known as yogiisms. Casey was known to say, "I never play a game without my man." Not many realized it was Yogi, the short, stocky, non Yankee looking guy. As a catcher, it's harder to play everyday, and Casey put him in other positions, to rest his body. The Yankees and Dodgers met again, for the twelfth record time. The Dodgers win puts the head to head record at 8 wins for Yankees and 4 wins for Dodgers. A universal baseball poem. "Me, My Man, Dodgers and Yankees!" Carl Sagan called, he said, 'Now the Old Professor speaks, no aliens, no demons, just a baseball World Series of freaks." Casey, "I love our game, this baseball today! We know the Intel, in regard to primitive man is exciting. I wouldn't want to be a dentist, too boring. I saw the Prince of Central Park in a tree, he had a Met's Helmut on in 73'. I heard someone say, "I see a Neanderthal, he stole the ball from the right fielder." Now I know baseball, NY too! They got places and we keep studying. Seems everyday, it's something new, and they found it yesterday. I ask My Man, he got a frown, "Its over, Skip!" There you have it. Congratulations to the Dodgers! We got the measurements, and we don't change them, but we have plenty of space between each player. It's universal. Growing around the diamond, it's perfect, a bang bang play. It's sixty and six, and it's still 90 feet away. Gargantuan players, Little League Bears in stands, even higher, they can't catch? We send them to Newark. In spring, when we feel July, we go over it a thousand times. We can't rest our morals, that's not the way we do it, and we catch the ball. We throw it there, and hit it everywhere. In the end we hear her singing, "Take me out to the ball game"! Amazing Amazing Amazing, this beautiful baseball game! It's Halloween and next year, My Man says, "I don't know? Skip, I thinks it's going to be deja vu, all over again!" It might be my man, and we'll always be there, we got to get back to the spirits of baseball past. It's a field of dreams. Peace, I tell you, where a grown man can have a catch with his son. See you in spring, and you can bet, we will be back for summer, and of course fall. 13, I believe, is a Yankee lucky number!" By One Author, Directions to Mercy Street & Edward Campagonla Directions to the Dumpster Respectfully, Eddie Campagnola

[@patriciaadams4171]

THAT WAS AN ENJOYABLE BASEBALL READING thanky

[@exodus1960]

Only Bill Lee would consider the northeast territories act while driving

[@habitualmasticator]

Northwest

[@michaelcameron5531]

I didn’t understand the reference. Please explain

[@rdubois1459]

@@michaelcameron5531 The act (written in 1787, many years after Boston was mapped out) laid out a grid map system in the five states around the Great Lakes and because of this many of the roads in those states are perfectly straight and perpendicular to adjoining roads. When driving, if you make three consecutive right or left turns, you will almost always end up at the same place you started at.

[@PattyBandAidz]

Kaline had pigeon shit on his shoulder because he was already a statue

[@YTEdy]

The CCCP cap is an unusual choice.

[@adamsmith2683]

And to think, if I tell my sons the Red Sox have to dig up Babe Ruth for a public apology they'll think I'm just a crazy old man. We may never know what cured the curse...

[@timothyryan3031]

They got some team ownership that knew what they were doing. It was the "curse" of bad management all along. And oh boy let me tell you about Tom Yawkey...

[@Trucker1957]

What a cool guy Spaceman is.

[@michaelcap9550]

Until Don Zimmer got his revenge.

[@michaelbove3973]

As a Yankee fan, but most;y as an American, I love the Red Sox fans, and colorful ballplayers like Bill Lee. That "bloop" pitch hit for a home run must have been stolen signs, because he rarely throws it and was completely unexpected by 99% of the batters. You guys "reversed the curse" with your 5 in a row series win, then went on to win the world series. Congratulations. you have almost 10 if you include when you were called "Boston Americans". We have 27. You have a lot of catching up to do!

[@crixxxxxxxxx]

It’s called Jersey Street again.

[@SpottedSharks]

Al Kaline sits down to watch an episode of Baseball, and Bill Lee takes a shot at him out of nowhere.

[@colgatecrew]

"no matter what the outcome of this game is, I'm going to the Eliot Lounge." What a guy. That said, I'm a Reds fan and have always been annoyed that Ken Burns presents the 1975 World Series as a tragedy...sad piano music is played when they show the clip of the final out.

[@petezereeah517]

You have to look at the reality of it. That Reds team was the greatest starting 8 lineup in history....we all know it. But, Boston is the city that helped create the United States, and has been an immense media hub for years. Boston sees Cincinnati as some corn eating class of people who are just thankful they don't live in Cleveland.

[@andrewbruce1737]

Matthew Green

[@greggmoeller6307]

That's because the Reds are depicted as villains. That's always been my gripe about the documentary is that it is one big Valentine to Red Sox fans.

[@Elijahrock21]

@jomboy needs to get Bill Lee in the Warehouse games pronto

[@alkaline933]

And as an Expos fan (still recovering), I'd like to share the following...If you don't know, Warren Cromartie is spearheading a project to bring back the Expos to Montreal. Its a tall task, but it has steadily gained momentum. He says he has had some positive talks with MLB. Also, the Jays will be playing the Mets in two pre-season games in Montreal in late March with a night gala event to honor the 1994 Expos (some of them will be there). Please Google "Montreal Baseball Project".

[@shotgunshell80]

Can’t find this full Interview anywhere...

[@oldcremona]

03:04 Hal MacRae my favorite all-time Royal. Best not get in his way.

[@RichAdams21]

Burns' obsession with New York and Boston after episode 5 is too much.

[@CaptainLumpyDog]

Everyone know those are the only two teams that matter! Signed, a Boston-born-and-bred Red Sox fan ;)

[@ralphwinfield2872]

Lee threatened my fy friging life in mid-O

[@ohheynate]

What film is this from?

[@MrsAgnew]

Full it with oil and check the gas!!!

[@zukunftverstehen]

Thumbs up for a ball cap!

[@GregJay]

Lee is a funny guy. As a player in the Msbl I have heard he still pitches at the msbl world series every year in Arizona November . I have been many times and never saw him. But the guy is a legend. As a Tigers fan I think it's funny what he said about Kaline everybody here thinks he is royalty or some shit. I always thought he was the most boring player in Tigers history. His stats were okay but he never carried a team just a decent player thats it. Lee is a cool guy would loved to have met him. The Spaceman. I bet he has some funny stories to tell about Yaz n company. Thanks for the advice on the sinker. I throw my 2 seem fb that way but put my fingers on the threads not inside gonna try it. maybe thats why I never got it to sink the key in pitching is to be ahead in the count. A 4 seammer is easier to control than a 2 seammer for me.

[@tylerrigdon6795]

Batting .340 before you’re legally old enough to drink a beer is pretty exciting. But whatever you say!

[@richardburkholder220]

With regard to Yaz. He said the reason Yaz was so good for so long was because the character 8 laid on its side means infinity

[@thehaughtcorner]

@@tylerrigdon6795 Al Kaline's greatness is indisputable. That "boring" player can be on my team anytime.

[@DanHolmes-o9b]

During Kaline's playing days look at some of the other outfielders who played at that time. Compare his stats with any of them. 1961season: Piersall batted .322., Karine (I think) bat's .346 and yet Norm Cash wins the batting title hitting .366. That off season Norm Cash proudly explains to readers of Boy's Life magazine " how to Cork your bat". This was American Boy's Bible. Everyone read and respected it. Wait a moment. Years later Albert Bell goes through 'batgate'.. Wtf?

[@ReckerMasta]

Does anybody know what this is from?

[@ernestcruz6316]

It's from Ken Burns's documentary Baseball. If you have a DVD player you may be able to find it at your local library. (Warning: it has 10 DVDs!)

[@jaxsonsdad79]

@@ernestcruz6316it’s episode/Inning 9 Home

[@terrymundorff7450]

I remember this segment from the original PBS broadcast of Ken Burns' "Baseball" (1994) and laughing my butt off at Bill Lee. "The Spaceman".

[@danocatster]

Soviet cap - stupid.

[@sce2aux464]

No difference in the hat he's wearing and a red and black hat with a swastika as far as I'm concerned.

[@thehaughtcorner]

And there's no difference between the Soviet Union of those times and Russia now? Get real.

[@erickh82082]

Pigeon shit😂😂😂😂😂

[@magnuscroify]

He'd be a lot more admirable without that hat...

[@Mandolatron]

Neurodivergent

[@petec6727]

If that's your best pitch Bill, then why ohh why did you not throw that pitch to Tony Perez in game 7 of 1975 World Series?? Cause you are and will always be a ----- SNAPPERHEAD!

[@SpottedSharks]

Perez whiffed badly on that blooper pitch earlier in the series, so maybe Lee thought it would work again.

[@thehaughtcorner]

@@SpottedSharks He did. But Perez saw a hesitation in Lee's motion the time before, so he knew what was coming and timed it. The Reds had a really hard time with Lee, and that gets lost in the wake of one home run. Never mind that the Red Sox led 3-0 early and never scored again. I watched Lee carefully when the Red Sox would come to Texas to play the Rangers, because I wanted to see what the Spaceman stuff was all about. And for all his quirky behavior, he worked very hard between starts to be prepared for his next game. Really changed my perception of him. He loves the game, loves Fenway, and was a smart, smart pitcher. Cut from a different cloth, but there was no BS when he was between the lines.

[@williammcgann2285]

Worst rule ever created. You cannot play a sport with two rules.

[@CaptainLumpyDog]

Guess you got your wish.

[@jsd795]

The DH was the start of the slippery slope that slowly but surely has seen baseball slide from greatness to the gimmicky shit show that it has become today.

[@petezereeah517]

I'd like to know what he thinks about that bullshit bloop crap he threw to Tony Perez in the 75 Series with the Reds. Perez was waiting on it, ( Perez hit more RBI than any player in the 70's and is in the Hall ) and Lee threw it anyway. Perez hit that pitch out of the stadium and across the street. That's the measure of Lee's ego.

[@subeyguy66]

Pete Zereeah A meatball pitch for sure. But, the count was 3-0, and I'm guessing he thought a fastball was too predictable. Who knows. Either way, Tony Perez was a monster.

[@michaelbanaszak7775]

Bill Lee is a Communist infiltrator...

[@gerrieburke1316]

I've known Billy for over 20 years, and when I asked him about that pitch to Perez, he said he simply lost concentration, being angry at the error that Denny Doyle committed on the prior pitch to Johnny Bench. He should have been out of the inning, but Don Zimmer moved the infield, causing Doyle to hurry to throw the first making it an error, allowing for Perez to come up. Bill had gotten Perez out on that blooper pitch a handful of times in the series already, and he just threw one too many

[@gerrieburke1316]

@@michaelbanaszak7775 are you for real?

[@roberthayden3741]

@@gerrieburke1316 I always disliked Don Zimmer because of the way he treated Bill Lee culminating in Zimmer stupidly ignoring Lee in September of 1978. Lee's last appearance that season was a 2.1 inning scoreless appearance in relief against the Yankees on September 10th. The Sox were on their way to a one game playoff loss to the Yankees. Zimmer preferred going with Mike Torrez who was 1-5 for the month of September for the playoff game rather than the lefty who had an 0.97 ERA vs the Yankees in 1978. The Sox would have been better off with an actual gerbil managing that team rather than Zimmer.

[@johndeagle4389]

What a jerk Lee is. He's got Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Not funny!

[@afmartin2734]

It's a joke. Why are all you Trumpy/Putin people kinda dumb?

[@voicevitality7197]

@@afmartin2734 the dumb part is you referring to him as a Trumpy/Putin person.

[@vicepresidentmikepence889]

Actually, it's hilarious

[@johndeagle4389]

@@vicepresidentmikepence889 Not even remotely funny.

[@jaxsonsdad79]

@@johndeagle4389hilarious