Interview with Bill Stoneman, General Manager, Anaheim Angels. (Oral History)
Bibliographic record
Abstract
In just the tenth game of the existence of the Montreal Expos, Bill Stoneman threw a no-hitter, defeating the Philadelphia Phillies 7--0. In 1972, he was named to the National League All-Star team and pitched a second no-hitter, defeating the Mets 7-0. From 1984 until 1999, he served in the Montreal front office. In 1999, he was hired as general manager for the Angels. BS: I never thought I would come back to baseball. I had some success as a player, but my last year and a half in the Major Leagues was awful. I had hurt my shoulder and really never recovered. The power was gone from my arm. I used to have a good fastball and a good curve ball--both were gone. It just was not a whole lot of fun going out there getting your brains beat out most of the time. Occasionally, you had enough to fool somebody, but usually I didn't. At the end of my baseball career, I was with the Angels. The general manager was Harry Dalton, and he was only thirty years old. Harry made me an offer to stay in baseball, that is, go to Triple A and see if I could go and straighten out, but I knew the power was gone and I told Harry that I appreciated the opportunity but I thought it was time to get a job outside of baseball. Because the previous year and a half was not a lot of fun, I just wanted to distance myself from the game. I had a college degree [B.S. in Business from the University of Idaho] a nd I also had a master's degree (M.Ed. from the University of Oklahoma) and decided to put it to work. After my baseball career was over, I stayed in Canada, even though I was originally from the U.S., and worked for nearly ten years for Royal Trust. Had I not gone into the business community and stayed in Canada, I would have never been back in baseball. That is the reason that John McHale, the Expos general manager, invited me back into baseball. The Expos were looking for somebody with a business background who knew a little bit about baseball. BK: you left baseball, had you thought about ever coming back? BS: No. I had not given it a thought. I was very pleased to be living in Toronto working for Royal Trust. They were renowned as one of the best trainers of management people amongst financial institutions. I was very pleased with my career path, and then a flukey thing happened. My wife and I and our kids were vacationing in Prince Edward Island. At the time I was working in Toronto. I had started off with Royal Trust in Montreal, but they transferred me to Toronto after a few years. On the way back from PEI in the summer of 1982, we drove through Montreal. My wife is a Montrealer. She is French Canadian, and she wanted to stop and see her family, and it gave me an opportunity to go out and see the Expos, who happened to be in town. I stopped by the clubhouse and spoke to Steve Rogers and Gary Carter and a few of the guys who were young guys when I was with the Expos. One of the Expos office people told me that some of the press people upstairs would like to see me--guys that I had not seen in years. I was s itting and talking with a great, great writer and a wonderful guy, Jacques Beauchamp, when John McHale walked by. He interrupted for a second and said, When you're finished, I would like to see you for a minute. I saw John McHale, he said, Have you ever thought about coming back into baseball? I kind of looked at him and said, No! I I was telling the truth--I hadn't. And he said, Well, you know, baseball has changed. Ifs just not the little bitty small business that you run out of a shoebox anymore. It's becoming bigger and bigger, and we really need someone with some business experience. I know what you have been doing and I know how well you've been doing, but there is room for you here. John and I talked off and on for over a year. I was doing fine at Royal Trust, and I liked Toronto. We were settled down there, and we had not enjoyed the disruption when we moved from Montreal to Toronto, so I was not looking forward to moving again. …
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.007 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.005 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.004 | 0.007 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.098 | 0.022 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".