The other day, Scott Lauber mentioned he used to cover minor league baseball, which reminded me I hadn't posted this little nugget I found while cleaning my junk out of my parents' attic.Flipping through a 1998 issue of Boston Baseball, an underground scorebook and magazine tailored to cheap Red Sox fans like me, I saw a story on Mike Benjamin written by Lauber, who is now the only Gannett beat writer covering the Phillies.
It's pure SoxandPhils, mentioning Benjamin's 1996 stint with the Phillies and how he was currently third on the Red Sox in batting average.
He also wrote a profile of defensive whiz Darren Lewis, which contained a rip on SoxandPhil Wes Chamberlain. "In other words, he's not Wes Chamberlain, whose two-year Red Sox career could fill a baseball bloopers video," Lauber wrote.
He also wrote that Dusty Baker likened Lewis to former Phillie Garry Maddox.
It's like he was auditioning for his future job.
Current Boston Globe columnist Tony Massarotti wrote the lead story on Pedro.
Mike Gimbel, the statistician who by then had been ridiculed out of the Red Sox front office, didn't do himself any favors with his ranking of the top minor leaguers of 1998 - Peter Bergeron and Alex Escober topped the list of position players ahead of Troy Glaus, Eric Chavez and Adrian Beltre. The top pitching prospect? Bruce Chen.
Ah, the Dan Duquette era.
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