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Spaceman, Pancakes, Beer, and Steak

Tin House’s Games People Play issue hits stands this week, just in time for baseball’s spring training.  Among new fiction by Jennifer Egan, poetry from Matthew Zapruder, and essays by Tom Bissell and Karen Russell, writer Brian James Barr unearths the memoirs of Bill “The Spaceman” Lee, a pitcher for the Boston Red Sox and Montreal Expos in the 1970s and early ’80s who is probably the only player in MLB history to be immortalized in song by Warren Zevon.  As the below clip shows, pro sports were a bit different in 1979.  The Spaceman’s pre-game regimen?  “I went out and had a beer and a steak, and go get ‘em.” –Brian DeLeeuw

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