Former Main League Baseball pitcher and Terra Linda Excessive Faculty graduate Invoice “Spaceman” Lee is recovering after he collapsed and stopped respiratory within the bullpen throughout an exhibition recreation with the minor league Savannah Bananas on Friday night time.
Paramedics used a defibrillator to assist revive the 75-year-old Lee, who suffered a cardiac episode. He was taken to Memorial Well being College Medical Heart. Bananas supervisor Eric Byrnes posted a photograph to Twitter on Saturday of himself with Lee trying joyful and comparatively wholesome.
Lee spent 14 seasons with the Boston Pink Sox and Montreal Expos as he racked up a 119-90 profession report. An All-Star in 1973, Lee is a member of the Boston Pink Sox Corridor of Fame.
Lee, who pitches for the Bananas, stays a preferred and lively determine in baseball because the oldest pitcher to win an expert baseball recreation.
On August 23, 2012, he pitched a nine-inning full recreation victory for the San Rafael Pacifics at Albert Park. Utilizing a home made bat within the fifth inning, he drove within the first run of the sport for the Pacifics, who defeated the Na Koa Ikaika Maui 9-4. Lee’s bat and uniform have been later donated by the Pacifics to the Baseball Corridor of Fame.