[JrMacdaddy]

"Out with someone other than his wife.......asking for trouble (remember Lyman Bostock). "

Not the same as Bostock. Circumstances not even close.

He was batting .296 and hot enough to expect to once more hit .300 for the season the day the Angels left Minnesota for Chicago shortly before the end of the season. When Bostock played in Chicago, he always stayed in Gary, Indiana, with his uncle, Thomas Turner.

Bostock went 2-for-4 on a September Saturday afternoon game in Chicago, then drove to Gary.

Bostock told Turner that he hadn't seen childhood friend Joan Hawkins for years, so Turner called Hawkins' sister, Barbara Smith, who said Hawkins would be by soon. Bostock and Turner drove to Smith's house, where friends began to gather to meet Bostock. He chatted and signed autographs for friends of Smith, whom he had known for about 30 minutes when she asked Turner if she and Hawkins could catch a ride to a friend's house.

Bostock and Smith got into the back seat of Turner's Buick Limited. Six blocks later, Turner heard a shotgun blast and thought it had come from outside a nearby store. It had come from a car next to them. Leonard Smith, the estranged husband of Bostock's seatmate, had driven beside the Buick and pulled the trigger on a sawed off shotgun.

Reports suggested Smith wanted to kill his ex-wife, but those close to the case later said Smith mistook Bostock for his estranged wife's boyfriend.