Lyman Bostock Story Part 1

The story of major league baseball player Lyman Bostock's rise from the intercity of Los Angeles to his tragic death during his first season as the highest paid player in sports after signing with the California Angels in 1977 after leaving the Minnesota Twins.During the first month of the season and having a subpar performance, Bostock refused to take his salary and when the team would not keep it, he gave it to charity. Bostock was fatally shot in Gary, Indiana by a jealous divorcee while visiting relatives when playing the Chicago White Sox in the last weekend of the 1978 season. Bostock's father, from Alabama, played in the Negro Leagues.

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[vikrul]

a promising career cut short.

[metop33]

I once read a story about how geniune Lyman Bostock was. The story goes he was signing autograpghs for a couple of kids outside the angels ballpark after the game. Lyman noticed that their parents were not around so he asked the kids where their parents were? The kids said that they were coming to pick them up. So Lyman stayed with them till their parents came and even bought them ice cream or pop from a place across the street!

What a wonderful man! RIP Mr. Bostock!!

[Roggiedodgie]

@MariPamJam and with the introduction of steroids, take that and add just a few more!

[fek2000]

@Jbone85 Agreed on hustle and desire--I meant in money terms. His stats after leaving Boston took a nosedive. He barely hit .250 for the rest of his career and spent a lot of time on the disabled list, yet pocketed millions, most of it courtesy of Gene Autrey.

[Jbone85]

@fek2000......... Freddy Lynn was not a deadbeat....the man would run through a wall to get at a ball.

[owg59]

I saw Bostock hit a double against the Mariners in July, 1978. What a tragedy!

[chiefsfan485]

Lyman was one of the most underrated hitters to ever play major league baseball and a great guy as well. He definitely didn't deserve losing his life at such a young age and getting killed in the way that he did. They just don't make professional athletes like Bostock anymore. Period.

[MIZMETRIA]

AWWW I MISS MY GRANDADDY

[fek2000]

I'll bet Gene Autrey really appreciated Bostock's sincerity in refusing to accept salary when he was performing poorly, because in the years after that in an effort to try to build a championship team he gave some of his fortune away to deadbeats like Fred Lynn and Reggie Jackson who never performed as well as they had previously. There should be a special place in baseball's Hall of Fame for people like Lyman Bostock, as there surely is in Heaven.

[brendabaloyan]

I was listening about his death when I also listen about PSA crash in San Diego september 25 1978!

[MariPamJam]

I know. If he wasn't murderd, He would of had more than 2,500 hits, 400 or more home runs, 80 or more stolen bases, and 380 or more doubles. We'll miss you Lyman, we sure will.