Baseball Way Back: a quick trip to the bigs for a Forest View hero
Months after the White Sox selected Larry Monroe in the first round of the 1974 major league free agent player draft, he faced his first big league hitter.
Turning around, the young pitcher saw Hank Aaron, months after he broke Babe Ruth's home run record, palming his batting helmet and sweeping the dirt with his feet as he settled into the batter's box. Monroe entered in relief of starter Rich Gossage in the bottom of the seventh with Sox down 5-1. After walking his first batter, Chuck Scrivener, he was behind 2-0 to Ron LeFlore.
Initially, Richards told Monroe he would use him as a closer. But when Gossage, then a starter, ran into early trouble in a game in Milwaukee on Aug. 28, the bullpen phone rang, and Monroe was ordered to warm up. Richards, who said,"His velocity is pretty damn good for a kid that young," didn't tell Monroe about his strategy"because I didn't exactly know what would happen."
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