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Telephone interview with Reggie Cleveland on August 5, 2005, by the author.
Notes
1 Peter Gammons, “Sox complete six-man trade with Cards,” Boston Globe, December 8, 1973, 20.
2 “Sox complete six-man trade,” 22.
3 Author’s interview with Reggie Cleveland, on August 8, 2005.
4 Red Smith, “$20,000 Buys Many Cheeseburgers,” New York Times, October 17, 1975, 41.
5 Interview with Reggie Cleveland by Dan Dinardo on August 4, 1990, for the SABR Oral History Project. e interview was
transcribed by Joseph Hetrick.
6 Author’s interview with Reggie Cleveland on August 8, 2005.
7 Neal Russo, “Reggie May Ease Card ‘Pen Pains,” e Sporting News, October 24, 1970, 24.
8 Neal Russo, “Redbird Cleveland Chills Giants For First Win,” e Sporting News, May 8, 1971, 3.
9 Dan Turner, Heroes, Bums and Ordinary Men (Toronto: Doubleday Canada Limited, 1988), 128.
10 Peter Gammons, “’Best Sta in Baseball’, Bosox Beam,” e Sporting News, December 22, 1973, 36, 41.
11 Author’s interview with Reggie Cleveland on August 8, 2005.
12 Tom Adelman. e Long Ball (Boston: Back Bay Books, 2003), 94.
13 Author’s interview with Reggie Cleveland, August 8, 2005; Turner, Heroes, 128.
14 Turner, Heroes, 126.
15 Larry Whiteside, “Aase, Paxton and Stanley — Bosox’ Trio of
Hill Beauts,” e Sporting News, September 3, 1977, 8.
16 Larry Whiteside, “Red Sox Turn to Wright in Sale of Cleveland,”
e Sporting News, May 6, 1978, 10.
17 Randy Galloway, “Reggie Makes Mark in Ranger Relief,” e Sporting News, June 10, 1978, 12; Boston Globe, April 19, 1978, 20. Curiously, on page 17 of the May 6, 1978, edition of e Sporting News, Randy Galloway reports the selling price as $150,000.
18 Bob Ryan, “Reggie (Almost),” Boston Globe, April 19, 1978, 20. 19 Randy Galloway, “Forgotten Jorgensen Strikes Ranger Fancy,”
e Sporting News, March 31, 1979, 56.
20 Smith,“$20,000Buys.”
21 Tom Flaherty, “Brews’ Reggie — A New Look,” e Sporting News, March 22, 1980, 42.
22 Tom Flaherty, “Reggie: From Joker to Ace,” e Sporting News, July 19, 1980, 37.
23 Ibid.
24 Tom Flaherty, “Travers Piles Up the Pluses,” e Sporting News, August 16, 1980, 27.
25 Turner, Heroes, 121.
26 Tom Flaherty, “Bando Bows Out on a Happy Note,” e
Sporting News, October 24, 1981, 36.
27 Turner, Heroes, 129.
28 Cleveland disputes the o cial record. He claims it should be 106-106. See Turner, Heroes, 130.
29 Author’s interview with Reggie Cleveland on August 8, 2005.
30 Turner, Heroes, 129; Dinardo interview with Reggie Cleveland; author’s interview with Cleveland.