After 37 years, he left the franchise to join the upstart Seattle Pilots in, and was the subject of several unflattering anecdotes in Jim Bouton's iconoclastic recollection of the Pilots' one and only season, "Ball Four".
He left the franchise to join the upstart Seattle Pilots in. This was after 37 years. He was the subject of several unflattering anecdotes in Jim Bouton's iconoclastic recollection of the Pilots' one and only season, "Ball Four". This was after 37 years.