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Reviewed by: Bush League Blues by Mike Floyd Chad S. Wise Mike Floyd. Bush League Blues. Blanch, NC: Lee Street Press, 2022. 299 pp. Paperback, $19.95. At the start of every baseball season, many fans dream of putting on the stirrups, caps, and gloves to have just one moment on a big league field. Mike Floyd, author of Bush League Blues, never quite lived out his dream of playing in the majors, but he spent enough time in the minor leagues to fill an entire book with stories and memories from relatively unknown players to [End Page 132] future Hall of Famers. Floyd played for nine years, 1967–1975, making it as high as AAA. The teams he played for were the affiliate teams of the Los Angeles Dodgers, California Angels, and Houston Astros. He hit seventy-five home runs in 740 games, with a lifetime batting average of .275. Floyd spent those years traveling by beat-up buses, staying in cheap hotels, and spending countless nights (some of which turned into mornings) chasing women and above average beer. In his book Floyd shares his experiences at all levels of the minor leagues in the late 1960s and early 1970s, both in the United States and Mexico. Bush League Blues describes Floyd's life in the minors. He covered the blues music scene in San Diego for several publications and even played harmonica in numerous bands. He was also a blues photojournalist for twenty-five years. Though the phrase has been around since the early 1900s, "bush league" in Floyd's story refers to a 1971 incident in Salt Lake City. Floyd was on the Salt Lake City Angels, and the team welcomed seasoned veterans towards the end of the season. Greg Goosen was one such player who joined the team in the fall. The "Goose" (not to be confused with Hall of Fame pitcher Rich "Goose" Gossage) was at bat one August night and struck out. Fans started booing him, and one yelled, "Hey Goose, why don't you go back to the bush leagues, you bum!" Goose spun around and yelled, "Where in the fu** do you think this is?" (79). Among the many stories Floyd shares, his time with manager Del Rice through four seasons from 1968–1971 stands out. In 1971 the team was staying in Phoenix and had just made it to their hotel. Floyd states, "It wasn't the most luxurious hotel/motel for accommodations, but it had two features that made it to the top of the list for minor league ballplayers: an awesome pool and a coffee shop with the best Double Cheeseburger Platter in the league" (105). After winning their fourth game and becoming division champions, it was time to celebrate, and the party really hit its crescendo around 2:00 a.m.! Floyd continues, "We apparently didn't bother any of the motel guests that night as their room air conditioners drowned out all the whooping cannonballs. Where was our manager through all of this partying? He was out there in white trunks doing flips and half gainers off the wooden diving board and getting into water fights with all of us like we were schoolboys" (106). Floyd shows readers why players loved Del Rice as their manager; he was hard-nosed but knew how to celebrate a job well done. Rodney Earl Gaspar, also known as "The Rocket" (with apologies to Hall of Famer Roger "The Rocket" Clemens), was a teammate of Floyd's in 1965 and 1966 in California and was known for drawing walks. He took as long as he could, sometimes 30–40 seconds per pitch, to frustrate the pitchers. According to Gaspar, "Today's game can sometimes take three to four hours for a nine-inning [End Page 133] game. Managers are constantly bringing in relievers and you hardly see a starting pitcher complete a game. The time I spent in five normal at-bats might add another twenty minutes to a game" (109). Perhaps of all the stories shared in Bush League Blues, the chapter on Art "The Caveman" Kusnyer paints the perfect picture of life in the minors. Floyd states, "I got...
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Prédiction distillée sur la base complète
Imitation des enseignantsNi prévalence calibrée, ni vérité terrain. Validation humaine à venir. Apprise à partir de 10 348 étiquettes directes de Codex et de 10 348 étiquettes directes de Gemma. Le mode candidate est l'union des têtes enseignantes seuillées; le consensus est leur intersection. Ces sorties portent le statut machine_predicted_unvalidated et ne sont ni des étiquettes humaines ni des étiquettes directes de modèles de pointe.
Scores Codex et Gemma par catégorie
| Catégorie | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Métarecherche | 0,000 | 0,000 |
| Méta-épidémiologie (sens strict) | 0,000 | 0,000 |
| Méta-épidémiologie (sens large) | 0,000 | 0,000 |
| Bibliométrie | 0,000 | 0,000 |
| Études des sciences et des technologies | 0,000 | 0,000 |
| Communication savante | 0,000 | 0,000 |
| Science ouverte | 0,000 | 0,000 |
| Intégrité de la recherche | 0,000 | 0,000 |
| Charge utile insuffisante (le modèle a refusé de juger) | 0,096 | 0,001 |
Scores machine (provisoires)
Les deux têtes enseignantes du modèle étudiant, lues sur ce travail. Un score ordonne la base pour la relecture; il n'affirme jamais une catégorie, et le statut de validation accompagne chaque rangée tel quel.
Scores de référence d'un modèle non mature (critères de maturité non atteints, 7 itérations). Un score ordonne; il n'affirme jamais une catégorie.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · tel quel depuis la passe de notation : score_only signifie que le nombre peut ordonner les travaux, et qu'aucune étiquette de catégorie n'en découleClassification
machine, non validéePrédiction automatique; un appel candidat d’une seule tête enseignante, pas un consensus.
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