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Baseball clubhouse a home away from home: some players spend more time in the locker room than they do at home so clubs have offerd more luxuries for their comfort.

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| May 01, 2004 | Stone, Larry | COPYRIGHT 2004 Century Publishing Co. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

"WHEN I WAS A KID, I thought the players all lived in the clubhouse. I never thought they had homes or wives or anything like that. I thought the game ended and they all went inside the dugout and back into the clubhouse, where they all lived together. Mickey Mantle went home after the game? Lived in a house? Come on."

--Joe Sambito, Former major league pitcher, 1987

Sambito was right. You can live in a clubhouse.

"Don Zimmer was born in a clubhouse," said Jim Bouton, former major league pitcher--and just try to prove him wrong.

When he served as Mariners coach in 1979-80, Bill Mazeroski, a future Hall of Famer, indeed lived in ...

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