Gun wound kills Angels’ Bostock
GARY, Ind. (AP) — California
Angels outfielder Lyman Bostock,
one of major league baseball’s
highest-paid players, died Sunday
of a shotgun blast fired into a car in
which he was riding with the wife
of the man arrested for the shoot
ing, police said.
Bostock, 27, who was visiting
relatives in Gary, died about three
hours after he was shot late
Saturday night while riding in a car
with his uncle, Thomas Turner,
and at least two other persons.
One of the passengers was
identified by police as Barbara
Smith, 26, whose husband,
Leonard, 31, was arrested in the
shooting.
Police said Smith, who was
identified by his wife, was arrested
at his home Sunday about six
blocks from where the shooting
occurred. Charges were not im
mediately filed, police said.
Gary police Sgt. Charles High
smith said Smith and his wife ap
parently were getting a divorce
‘He helped everybody
by the way he played’
CHICAGO (AP) — The cold steel bracket which used to
carry the name “Bostock 10” was blank and the cubicle beneath it
was empty except for some shirt hangers and the chair which
Lyman Bostock used.
Ron Fairly, whose locker was next to that of Bostock, sat
blank-faced as did most of the California Angels, wondering
why — why Lyman Bostock had been shot to death?
“Words are hollow,” said Fairly. “Whatever you say isn’t
good enough. In the short time I knew him, he was a good man. I
felt comfortable around him. When he came into the clubhouse,
he always had a smile and nice word."
In the manager’s office, Jim Fregosi was fighting back tears.
The clubhouse guard came in and said, “Is it okay for the lady
from television to come in?”
“No,” said Fregosi. “I don’t want her here. No cameras.
“I didn't have much to say to the players,” said Fregosi. “I told
them all I knew about it. There’s not really too much you can say.
Everybody on the club knew what a good guy he was.”
Fregosi said he first learned of the tragedy Saturday night
when he walked into the hotel lobby and saw Danny Goodwin and
Ken Landreeaux crying.
Fregosi then broke a spell of silence by saying, “He was a lot
of fun to be around! He grew up around Wrigley Field in Los
Angeles, and he talked to me about when he was a kid and
watched me play when I came up with the Angels. He had a
special feeling for our gang.”
Back in the dressing room, the players were holding the
usual Sunday chapel meeting, but this time more than the ordi
nary number attended.
When it was over, Goodwin, who was close to Bostock said,
“I don’t know if Lyman was a religious man. Everybody has his
own religion, whether you show it or keep it within yourself. He
helped everybody by the way he played every day and cheered
for everyone,” said Goodwin.
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and had quarreled earlier in the
day.
Abdul Jalil, Bostock’s business
agent and adviser, contacted The
Associated Press and said the
women in the car were Turner’s
godchildren. He said Turner, Bos
tock and the women had just
finished a dinner at Turner’s
house and were taking the women
home. Bostock had lived in Gary
before moving to Los Angeles
several yars ago.
“They were like brothers and
sisters,” Jalil said from California.
“He (Bostock) had been out sign
ing autographs for kids in the Gary
ghetto and minutes later he’s shot
in the head.”
Highsmith said witnesses told
police that a car pulled alongside
Turner’s and that Bostock’s uncle
went through two red lights before
stopping at a third light at the in
tersection of 5th Avenue and
Jackson Street.
But Jalil, who said he talked to
Bostock’s family, said Turner’s car
was moving when Bostock was
shot, and that the gunman fired
the gun from inside a car.
However officers said after
Turner’s car stopped, the gunman
got out of the other car, walked
toward Turner s vehicle and fired,
striking Bostock in the left side of
his head, and injuring Smith. Of
ficers said the gunman then fled in
his car.
Bostock, who collected two hits
in four at-bats in his final major
league game Saturday against
the Chicago White Sox, often
stayed with his uncle when his
stayed with his uncle when his
team was playing in Chicago
Angels manager Jim Fregosi,
reached Sunday prior to the
Angels-White Sox game in
Chicago, said, "I didn't have much
to say to the players. I told them all
I knew about it. There’s not really
too much you can say. Everybody
on the club knew what a good guy
he was."
Gene Mauch, Bostocks
manager when he played for the
Minnesota Twins, said, “I’m
shocked. I’m sorry. I’m angry. I’m
sick. People don’t realize the
strong feelings of admiration and
respect that develop on a ballclub.
I thought the world of that man."
Bostock, a .318 career hitter,
left the Twins after last season
and signed with the Angels in
November as a free agent. His
five-year, $2.7 million contract
made him one of baseball’s
highest-paid players.
He was in a batting slump early
this season, but he gradually
raised his batting average to .294
with five home runs and 70 runs
batted in. Because of the early
season slump, he donated his
Guidry paces Yanks
CLEVELAND (AP) — New
York’s Ron Guidry fired a two
hitter Sunday for a club-record
ninth shutout of the year, pacing
the Yankees to a 4-0 victory over
the Cleveland Indians.
The triumph ended a two-game
skid by the Yankees, who lead
second-place Boston Red Sox in
the American League’s East Divi
sion. The shutout, meanwhile,
broke the club record set by
Whitey Ford in 1964.
TORONTO — Roy Howell’s
two-out throwing error in the 14th
inning allowed Jim Rice to score
from third Sunday, giving the Bos
ton Red Sox a 7-6 victory over the
Toronto Blue Jays.
NEW YORK — Tim McCarver
hit his first home run of the sea
son, a three-run blast, and Bake
McBride smashed a solo homer to
back the strong pitching of Steve
Carlton as the Philadelphia Phil
lies defeated the New York Mets
8-2 for their fourth straight victory.
April salary to charity, saying that
he felt he didn’t deserve it.
A native of Birmingham, Ala.,
Bostock was the 26th round draft
pick of the Twins in 1972 summer
draft and was promoted to the ma
jors in 1975.
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