BOSCO BUYS THE FARMEnos Slaughter was a '59 Topps headshot. My best buddy traded a kid up the street. Didn't know what lust meant, but I had to have that card. In '34 he played Bi State ball HERE, his hometown was 50 miles away, lifetime average .300; Enos was a YANKEE. We traded 3 times before Tom got smart and ordered another one. He didn't get the number from me- somehow mine got inked out. In '75 at NC State, I read Enos coached Duke's baseball team and parked in a Doak Field seat. State shellacked 'em twice but my joy was hollow; Slaughter never showed! Fifteen years later at the hometown mall Enos plugged his autobiography. He signed mine while talking about Branch Rickey; Slaughter was truthful but undiplomatic. Tact was never Bosco's hallmark; in 1960, managing Raleigh Durham's Mets, he told the front office what a lousy team they'd given him. Kept telling them till the Mets didn't offer him another contract. Slaughter may not last long in heaven; he'll tell God what he thinks too. Daniel Grey Taylor Leave feedback on our message board. |