Show Sports I thoughts This Is the year of ot the free tree agent In the world of ot baseball Players such as Reggie e Jackson Don Gullett Joe Rudi Rudl Gene Terrace Bobby Dobby Grich Wayne Garland and countless other baseball players have become millionaires this year Another baseball player Billy Baseball of the Detroit became a free Cree agent this year Billy Dilly decided not to sign his contract for the 1976 baseball season and thus at the end of oC the year he became a free Cree agent BILLY figured that due to the lack of oC good shortstops many ball clubs would be interested in gaining his services The job of oC utility infielder had been held by Billy Baseball in the early part of the 1976 season but when Baseball refused to sign his contract he was demoted to assistant reserve utility infielder in In- fielder It was well known around the league that Billy Baseball was a good player in key situations He wasn't a good hitter but Baseball usually didn't use a abat abat abat bat to get his hits anyway Many stories were told and retold about how Billy Baseball was able to come through during a pressure situation One example was a afew afew afew few years ago when the Detroit were locked Ina in ina a fierce struggle with the North Pole Polar Bears for Cor last place in the league IT WAS TilE THE last game of oC the season and in the bottom of oC the ninth the were behind the Polar Bears 10 to 9 and had only one out left in the inning The Polar Bears and the were tied for Cor last place in the league and as Coach Al Falfa thought about the great years he had hac as acoach acoach a acoach coach and a player for Cor his home team the Sunshine Country Boys an amazing idea came to him The idea was to have nave Billy Baseball pinch hit Billy Baseball moved into the batting circle but before beCore he had hada a ch chance nce to swing the bat the Polar polar Bears Beads flam flame flamel thrower q Dee Froster ter had a b blazed across two straight pitches two for for strikes against Billy Baseball t type Froster decided that now would be the time to toss his wicked flame thrower pitch at Billy Baseball Froster Fraster raised his arms and hurled his pitch at Billy However Billy Baseball who was always good for Cor a hit under pressure came through again as the pitch sailed away from the plate and struck Baseball in inthe inthe the elbow and thus Baseball gained first base to tie the ball game at 10 1010 TilE THE rallied rallied ral ral- lied behind the great play by Billy as Oscar Cool the hitter after Baseball blasted a single into the outfield to score the winning run Billy figured this was one of many examples of the great deeds he had performed for the However the president Bill Payer decided that Billy Baseball wasn't worth a raise of 50 cents per ball game which would give Baseball for each contest The assistant reserve utility infielder entered the tree free agent draft However only two teams listed Billy Baseball as one of their selections Baseball was picked by the North Pole Polar Bears and the Billy signed with the Polar Bears for Cor per ball game Now Billy can afford to buy a baseball mitt |