In a fit of rage, Leonard Smith fired a shot into the back of the vehicle, striking Bostock, the likely unintended target. Turner tried to pull away, but Leonard Smith caught up to them when the light at the intersection turned red. Leonard Smith, who was estranged from Barbara Smith, pulled up at approximately 10:40 p.m., according to ., Leonard Smith pulled up alongside the car Bostock was in and began arguing with those inside. Turner was driving them all with Bostock seated in the back seat next to Barbara Smith. Bostock and another uncle, Thomas Turner, visited Hawkins and her sister Barbara Smith. According to an article in The Reading Eagle, Bostock stopped to say hello to a woman named Joan Hawkins. After a game against the Chicago White Sox, Bostock was planning to go to his uncle’s house to stay there as he did when the team played in Chicago. Bostock killed by jealous husbandĪ crazed man named Leonard Smith erroneously thought his wife Barbara was having an affair with Lyman Bostock. In his first and only year with the Angels, Bostock had five homers with 71 RBIs before tragedy struck.
He drove in 90 runs and scored 104 times. Showing a nice blend of speed and power, Boston swiped 16 bases and hit 14 home runs. Bostock had his best season in 1977 when he hit. He drew a walk and singled in first two plate appearances against Fergie Jenkins. He made his big-league debut on April 8, 1975. It became a habit, and I still have it.”īostock was drafted by the Minnesota Twins in the 26th round of the 1972 MLB draft. It was the only way I could catch the ball. Since it was the only glove I had, I had to use it. Unfortunately, it was a left-hander’s model and I’m right-handed. But a friend of hers at work gave her a replacement. My mother wasn’t about to buy me another one. “When I was 8 years old, my mother bought me my first glove,” Bostock recalled during his playing days. In an article in, he said that wasn’t for show, but it was because his baseball glove was stolen when he was younger. Throughout his life, Bostock, an outfielder, was known for making basket catches. His father, Lyman Bostock Sr., was a first baseman who enjoyed a long career in the Negro Leagues. Lyman Bostock had some pretty good baseball genes. Not all of Dominic’s enemies are prepared to take his bad attitude lying down.RELATED: Derrick Thomas and the Tragedy That Took a Legend’s Life Too Soon Unfortunately, acting normal for Dominic involves lashings of sarcasm and nastiness, most of it directed at the unfortunate pitch team.Īmongst his primary targets are: Creative Director, industry legend and linguistic revolutionary Roger Staines Cuthbert Hunt, the world’s most inept and ineffectual account man (which is really saying something) Jimmy, a creative with ever such a slight tendency towards melodrama a wet-behind-the-ears account executive known only to Dominic as Monkey-Boy and a 2-year old ferret called Brian.Īs pitch day dawns, nerves fray to breaking point.
A double-cross of epic proportions is in the offing all he has to do is keep his head down and act normal for a couple of weeks. Heading up an irrelevant pitch like Jibber Jabber doesn’t figure in his game plan, which is fine, because he’s not planning on hanging around for long.
They’re pitching for a banana-flavoured jelly bar called the Jibber Jabber, but there’s a distinct lack of above par creative work and time’s a-ticking.Įnter Dominic dell’Olio, Cathcart & Partners’ Managing Director – clever, handsome and utterly dangerous. Notorious Soho-based advertising agency Cathcart & Partners is on high alert. Written by ad industry insider and popular author Louise Knight, Jibber Jabber is a sensational short story that lifts the stinking lid off the world of advertising to reveal the cesspool of ineptitude, profanity and sickly confectionery that lies within.
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