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survived. Here I am today: 20 years of total sobriety thanks to my friends in AA. I am building houses, riding motorcycles, shooting guns, voting Republican. I’m happy, some say crazy. My buddy Bill Lee, e Spaceman, used to say it’s better to be crazy than insane. I agree.”4
Sources
Hornig, Doug, e Boys of October (New York: McGraw-Hill, 2003). Lee, Bill, with Dick Lally, e Wrong Stu (New York:
Penguin, 1988).
Stout, Glenn, with Richard Johnson, Red Sox Century (Boston: Houghton Mi in Company, 2000).
Willoughby, James Arthur, personal Interview, July 11, 2004. baseball-reference.com
retrosheet.org
jimwilloughby.com
Notes
1 Unless otherwise notes, family information and all quotations attributed to Willoughby come from the author’s July 11, 2004 interview.
2 Peter Gammons, Boston Globe, August 26, 1975.
3 It was actually 15 days, from May 18 to June 3.
4 Willoughby’s website, active at the time it was accessed in 2005, was no longer active when sought in 2014.
