Diamond Hoggers Video: "Spaceman" Bill Lee

Baseball is filled with all kinds of characters. None more far out of left field then “Spaceman” Bill Lee. The nickname says it all. He was/is an absolute space cadet. In fact, I could listen to him spit jibberish all day long.

Lee played his career with the Boston Red Sox and Montreal Expos. Today he can be found in Vermont, at a spot exactly halfway between Boston and Montreal.

Before this victory picture above for instance, Lee says the key to his success was a bunch of pancakes and that he had a steak and a beer before the game. He then talks about shooting pool just blocks away from the stadium in Montreal and the only english they know is ‘Rack em’. Now that is about as throwback as it gets.

He also didn’t mind Marijuana. In fact he liked it.

-On his pregame habits: “I told [reporters] that I sprinkled marijuana on my organic buckwheat pancakes, and then when I ran my five miles to the ballpark, it made me impervious to the bus fumes. That’s when [Baseball Commissioner] Bowie Kuhn took me off his Christmas list.”

Buckwheat Pancakes are good. How this guy hasn’t ended up murdering anyone yet is your best guess. We felt that he should become part of the anthology of players that Diamond Hoggers has talked about.