hi this is a henry's baseball club to my right here is attorney donna cohen she's a fourth generation season ticket holder for the boston red sox she represents high visibly clients guy and he was born july fourth one thousand nine hundred eighty four in hampton virginia he's now around fifty nine his high school was portland high school in south portland maine he was also at dartmouth college in hanover new hampshire he was drafted by the new york yankees in the fourth round of the one nine hundred seventy five amateur draft and he made his debut on april twenty fifth one thousand nine hundred seventy eight at age twenty five twenty three so the two teams he played were for the mariners and yankees so the anchors were from seventy eight to seventy nine and then eighty two eighty six with the seattle mariners so i had a few things to point out if you can look at the front of the desk here a while back there was a big article in some of the north shore newspapers if you can on this on this side if you can see that that's me at the batting cages for people that you know sometimes people don't understand that where we're well known so if you want to zoom in on that the batting cages you have it over there and the other one will be a double a fisher cats and having a big dinner this year it's on the twenty third of november two thousand and thirteen at five pm it's at the radisson expo center in manchester new hampshire and feel free to call them or you can call me that seven eight one eight nine one zero six two one if you have any questions so let's start off with jim beatty also a card here for rich gossage i don't know if you remember him did you play with him jim when you were on it was he on your team a long time well good friends good ok well let's start at the beginning jim how did it all begin when you were in high school did you well strike out the side over and over tell us what brought the scouts or how you ended  and i really after my sophomore year i went to the cape cod league play to cape is a lot of people in new england know it's a good college league and i think that's where i really start to get a little interest as to what i could do profession guy a long time ago that used to be fantastic around here you struck out thirty seven guys in fourteen igs you know that's unheard of in amateur ball you know but i i think i actually had a losing record at the cape i pitched you know i was ok was good pitcher but i wasn't a great pitcher i don't know i don't think i made the all star team or anything like that you know it was a it was a case of me not having a lot of baseball experience just because of baseball season is very very short in the in the north play and have fun and i think one of the things i think they should one of the things that is it got kind of sticks in my craw a little bit these days is that kids choose a sport when they're ten or twelve years old and i think the best thing gets to do is to play more than one sport throughout the seasons because i think you develop athleticism and you develop a sense of how to compete and win games when you play more than just one game and i think baseball is a great sport but i think part of the reason i was able to be a good pitcher was that i also played a lot of basketball i developed my athleticism there and i think it's good for office just sort of to play different sports they don't burn out mentally  they don't get over you syndrome from lang just once for all that time and i think it's good for him to go out and you know as a supply player more than one sport might just be too i played too sports all the way through college  and be a fan of the game you know one of the things i think is a bit interesting in my career i grew up in maine my parents never would go to boston to take new game and in those days there was only probably one game a week and it was never the red so yeah for people that are never going to play in the cape cod lee was that a good leg that you have housing that you have a job i mean the idea of this program is to give people the inside because a lot of people were never going to step up got all star game a few years ago with a friend of mine who would broadcast monday and i talked to the players what they do when i played there you had to happen job they would usually put up with a host family but in our case we were five of us that they gave a house or rental two for and we we had a house to ourselves we had a car so we had jobs during the day and then we'd play every day at night so it was a terrific time you know i had a great time out there i worked for dartmouth alone and during the day i was he had about fifty acres around chatham i played for the harwich club and during the day i would work with chain and gravely machines and semi clear land so that people could walk there was property and got all the debt fall down so i mean i was i was fortunate i came out with all my fingers after using all those chainsaws all last summer but i was a great  can you give us some insight on that because we're never going to you know this is the that's the idea of this program is to let people know what it's like for the player the goes out to the mound or up to the plate well you know i think when you're a player it's what you do it's all the way through college you know little leak junior high school high school college summer league that's what you do and so when you go out there you've you know i pitched i don't know how many games by the time i got to the cape cod league and you know i went out there in and really just learned i think the biggest thing for me was i was now facing better competition and the one thing that was good for me that summer in particular was i could test what worked for me and what things i needed to work on and in my kind of my repertoire and the way i approach pitching and so it was a good learning experience for me you spent some time and player development baseball operations and as a coach and now as a scout what are the things that you are looking for when you're looking at kids today well if one of the first athletic hits that could throw the ball hard they have a good arm then we can teach them the game we have players all the time that are very raw when they're eighteen and nineteen or you know sixteen years old then and he's now known as david it were teats this kid was about he was a six two and he weighed about one hundred sixty pounds yeah ok i know what happened that you got signed how did that develop  elbow because i had been playing basketball before the draft and went up to dunk and a guy came and blocked my shot from behind i hit my elbow on the rim so i had a syracuse done ok so it was somewhat under heard of for first year player to be playing in aaa and it probably still is these days but right the yankees pushed me i had because they felt that i was mature enough  yeah and then no what was that first game like another word when you first came to boston let's say you know what's it like to go out on the mound there and be facing the boston red sox  when i was younger where we're not very good and anyway i went out there i went about two and a third innings my very first time pitching in boston i had about fifty tickets side left for a friends of mine from from maine my parents it was the first game my parents and s pitch in the major leagues and i didn't pitch very well and i during the during the game they told me i was going down to aaa they were sending me down so i went out to see my parents after a bad game with my back slung over my shoulder and said i'm going down to triple life so it was not a fun experience but i at that point well it's a learning experience right absolutely i came back at the end of that year and i went  haven't been pitching on a regular basis i had better command all of my pitches were around the strike zone and i was able to tap it as i got up there and once i got to that point i had confidence i knew i could throw strikes and so it was just a much different situation although like the world series game ended up being my first major league complete game i thought i could play games in the minor leagues but i had never done a complete game of the big leagues and the world series game and up being that i was my first major league complete game and i remember leaving the bo pen and telling the pitching coach you walked out with me and i said why don't you worry about that there's an old saying sometimes they leave it in the bullpen when they look great in the bullpen and they come to the game and they don't have anything i said i don't have worry about leaving it in the bullpen because i didn't have anything in the bullpen and i thought that probably was helpful here because it helped me to focus and say i've got to really bear that and figure out a way to get my stuff together here and how important is it the relationship between the pitcher and the catcher it's important i think you want to have a kind of a s pitch and when he calls it it's the pitch you're thinking about and and the way he he he works with you and pulls things out of you i think it's important i had catchers that  early in my career that were very helpful like i pitched you know in seventy eight and parts of seventy nine to thurman munson and thurman was very good at at whatever was working that day for me is kind of helping me to kind of get his wife we in seventy eight i also got married in september while there we were going through all this stuff trying to get in the playoffs and so forth i didn't get goose gave me is a condo in breckenridge colorado for two weeks and so we went out there we didn't i didn't ski i did some cross country skiing and i got around breckenridge and then came up the second week with his wife and he brought a snowmobile so we did a lot of know there you go ok any other picture you want to show us or no i don't have any pictures with me i have the only other thing i have with me is my world series ring that was with the yankees answer on deck i was ready to pitch in case we needed it but we had enough going on we had a good review it had a terrific year that year he pitched the playoff game and so once we won that game as i said we i ended up getting the first game to play off against the royals ok and then you moved on to seattle what was that like in seattle well it was a much different team i mean it was in a lot of ways i was fortunate to be moved traded to said i'm either going to be the number two or three starter or i'm going to be traded as a dented up i was traded out of the eighty season i went to seattle was that it was a pretty young team yeah do you know who didn't try to do before i was traded for i was part of a trait for rupert jones yeah jerry narron who has been a major league manager was also in that trade want but he has came over from the yankees with me and there are a couple other minor league pitchers as well so but as i said it was a young team they weren't very good we were playing in the kingdom but i got an opportunity to pitch which was important i mean regardless of how well i did every day i knew i was going to be out there for the next fifth day and that wasn't necessarily the case when i was playing in new york and the highlights at seattle that you want to tell us about oh oh i guess  chance to play with gaylord perry boca which was interesting gaylord's in the hall of fame actually because of that i got to hang around with leroy nieman when he was doing is portrait of gaylord and i was an art major in college so we went up to  six or yes yeah i was i had had surgery after the eighty four season and at eighty five in eighty six i had a nother surgery after each of those years my shoulder was her it was all torn up and so i just decided i could pitch do more overtired after the eighty six season and went to school at the university of washing got an m b a and then after that came out was hired as a minor league director with the seattle mariners oh you were minor league director is that what happened in ninety two is that no man in eighty eight i was a minor league director from eighty nine to ninety five ok was that what seattle yes ok and then eventually moved on to the york post then i was hired as the general manager the expos after the ninety five season was there through the two thousand and one season and then who were the some of the people who signed for the expos that you could not call well when i got there i mean i was there  when you know players came up i mean we had the major league club was pretty well set the guys that we signed during that time you know we had grady sizemore brandon phillips cliff lee those are all ex montreal expos that were signed when i was there and you know but we had the major league club was pretty well set i fact i just talked to someone who's writing a biography of pedro martinez i was a guy the trade of paid over to the red sox after the ninety seven season so we were again another small market club that was kind of surviving on player development developing players and keeping them but then we couldn't keep them because there wasn't a stadium to support the revenue we needed to keep our good major league players there was their reason why pedro was traded i mean he's such a fantastic but there for the red sox  extension and he said well i'll sign an extension but you also have to sign some other players with me i don't want to be the one you know major league player and have a lot of young players around me and i just you know we couldn't afford to do that so we made the decision to that we'd was very raw you know i talked earlier about a young player who's very raw that was david i mean he came over he could swing the bat a little bit but one of the things we really were waiting for was for him to sure get stronger he had actually got a pretty good going around first base move pretty well was pretty athletic and was just love playing you always had that that energy always had that smile on his face and just loved playing the game and so he was able to take that and it was still a while i mean obviously the you read the seattle mariners traded him to the twins when he was still a minor league level and so it was still going to take a while and the twins non tended him so it was something that he it was a matter of timing and he hit it when he got to boston and things clicked for him and he's hasn't looked back also pretty good players for the red sox at points of their career can you give us some highlights about working with them and knowing them well derek i think is pretty much the same guy very loose a bit of a free sinker and was trying to develop other pitches to go with that and was very skinny right out of michigan very tall and skinny so he needed to mature varitek was a pretty mature guy right from the beginning we signed him right before spring training i was in he reported to wilmington north carolina in double a when he after resigned and i was in the bullpen with them talking about just going through what what to be expected monday's reports and he was he was very good around he was not a you know a prima donna number one pick he went down a couple pence he put the work in he was always a hard worker and but so you know it was but he for the toronto blue jays is that what you are currently doing our no i actually resigned from the montreal expos i was the general manager after six years i decided that i we really didn't get into baseball to do what  montreal expos had a new owner jeffrey loria and what was going on with the club at that point was not something that i was enjoying as much as early on in my career as a g m of the expos so i decided i'd resigned  at that point major league baseball ended up buying the team so the whole montreal group went down to florida and major league baseball put a management team into montreal and  a friend of mine from his days with the mets called me up and asked me if i'd be interested in helping him because they didn't have even have scouting reports on their own players the expos people would take it everything with them so i kind of was hired for years especially as omar did some scouting out foster home i was living in hanover at that time in hanover new hampshire and at the end of that the i was at the end of that year which i believe it was two thousand power goes real quick right you've met me before at the dinner with the fisher cats right that's correct yeah ok well some people you know they don't think i know anybody so anyway i just want to read part of the list of the people are going to be at the dinner carbo then he mclean darryl avon's ron bloomberg jim beatty scott mcgregor also run the floor so you're going to be up there also right so people could meet you in person right i'll be there you go every year yeah it's november twenty third two thousand and thirteen for the people who want to go it's a fantastic time and my co host has been donna cohen she's a lawyer and she goes to all the fenway games so if you wan shows thank you thank you