Leland Hot Stove Baseball League
Leland, North Carolina 28451
Event 04 - Annual Banquet
January 8, 2009
Special Guess Speaker is
Mike Torrez
Mike Torrez had an
18-year career from 1967 to 1984. He played for the
St. Louis Cardinals,
Montreal Expos
and
New York Mets,
all of the
National League,
and
Baltimore Orioles,
Oakland A's,
New York Yankees,
and
Boston Red Sox,
all of
the American League.
Torrez won 2 games in the
1977 World Series
for the World Champion Yankees and won 15 or more games in 6 consecutive
seasons. After the Yankees 1977 championship season, he signed as a
free agent
with Boston. His 16-win
1978
season was forgotten with 1 pitch when he gave up a 3-run home run to
light-hitting Yankee
shortstop,
Bucky Dent,
in the late innings of the division-deciding 163rd game.
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Thursday January 8, 2008
Time: 6:30 PM
Price: $20.00
per Person
Leland Middle School