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Remembering Lyman Bostock

Saturday, September 20, 2008

I never saw Lyman Bostock play, in person or on television. We didn't have a television, and we rarely left the county in Vermont where we lived, let alone the state. What I knew of Bostock came from baseball cards -- a smile, and from my perspective as a 14-year-old, a whole lot of incredible numbers, especially for a player who was still relatively young. The news of his death came right after the farm report. At 7:15 a.m. on WDEV-550, an AM station out of Waterbury, Vt., they would shoeho ...

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