Warriors Pick 2 New Pitchers

Chief Victorio (c.1825-1880), also known as Lone Wolf, was likely born in what is now New Mexico and a member of the Warm Springs (Mimbreno) Apache tribe. He rode with Geronimo in the 1850s. He earned a reputation as a sound tactician and a leader of men. Between 1869-1877 Victorio lived peacefully on a reservation. However, in 1877 when ordered to relocate to a new reservation, a result of the Grant's administration "Peace Policy" and the Indian Bureau's policy of "concentration," Victorio led his people off the reservation in frustration. His band of Apache warriors then began an offensive that "terrorized most of the Arizona and New Mexico territories, killing prospectors and herders." On October 15, 1880 the Mexican militia found Chief Victorio and his band encamped in a mountain range known as Tres Castillas. They proceeded to massacre the group, killing Chief Victorio, 60 of his warriors and 18 women and children. Chief Victorio replaces the deactivated General Kvashnin, a former Chief of the Russian General Staff. (Note: Victorio's sister, Lozen, who was not in the camp at the time of the massacre, is a rookie with the Cosmic Baseball Association's team of interesting women, the Vestal Virgins.)

Silas Stillman Soule was born in 1838 in the state of Maine. His family, devout anti-slavery activists, moved in 1855 to Kansas where Silas became active in the Underground Railroad movement that helped slaves escape to the North. But Silas Soule's most heroic act came on November 29, 1864 when as a Captain in the 1st Colorado Cavalry he led D company during the "Chivington Massacre" also known as the Sand Creek Massacre. What made Captain Soule's actions so heroic on that day was his refusal to let his troops participate in the slaughter of innocent Apache men, women and children. Less then six months after the massacre and after he had written a letter about the true events of that day and testified about the tragedy, Soule was assassinated by Charles W. Squires, a member of the 2nd colorado Cavalry and, presumably, an operative of the disgraced John M. Chivington, who ordered and led the massacre. Soule is replacing Field Marshall Erwin Rommel who was deactivated last week.

Virgins Draft Lafave and Lozen

Debra Lafave

Debra Lafave (b. 1981) is a suspended middle-school teacher currently charged in the state of Florida with a total of 4 counts of lewd and lascivious battery and one count of lewd and lascivious exhibition. These are felony charges. Ms. Lafave was arrested in June for having sexual relations five times between June 3rd and 17th with one of her students, a 14 year old boy. Her attorney indicated she will use an insanity defense to escape conviction. The arrest came just a year after her marriage to Owen Lafave who has since filed for divorce. The Virgins chose Lafave after considering two other women accused of inappropriate sexual activity with younger boys, Amy Gehring and Beth Friedman. Lafave will play third base for the Virgins.

Lozen Apache Warrior

Lozen, born sometime in the late 1840s, was a heroic warrior with one of the fiercest native American bands, the Warm Springs Apache (also known as the Chiricahua). She was the younger sister of the great Apache Chief Victorio (who has been drafted by the Wonderland Warriors); Victorio called his sister, in a famous quote, "a shield to her people." She escaped the massacre in the Tres Castillas Mountains in northern Mexico, where her brother died. Eventually, Lozen would surrender to the "white eyes" and she died at age 50 in the Mt. Vernon barracks in Mobile, Alabama, far away from her ancestral home. Lozen, is today remembered for her acts of bravery and her clairvoyant ability to guide her people away from danger as they fled the settler armies in Arizona and into Mexico. Lozen will be a middle reliever on the pitching staff.

Pisces Draft Lance Reventlow

Lance Reventlow

Reventlow was born February 24, 1936 and was the only son of Barbara Hutton, the "poor little rich girl" who inherited the Woolworth fortune. Lance was the issue of Hutton and her second husband Cort Haugwitz-Reventlow, a member of Denmark's upper class. At age 12, Reventlow was introduced to car racing by his mother's fourth husband, Prince Igor Troubetzkoy, himself a race car driver and the winner of the 1948 Targa Florio. During the 1950s Reventlow built and raced Scarab, which were Chevrolet-powered race cars.

In 1962 Reventlow's passion for building and racing cars evaporated and he spent much of his time hiking and skiing. He also engaged in a variety of self-indulgent behavior including drinking and womanizing. He died accidentally in 1972 when the Cessna 206 airplane he was riding in, crashed into the mountains near Aspen, Colorado.

Pisces Draft Diane Varsi

Diane Varsi as Sally LeRoy in Wild in the Streets

Diane Varsi achieved success and stardom with her role as Allison MacKenzie in the 1957 movie Peyton Place. Columnist Joe Hyams called Varsi the "Marlon Brando of actresses." Others in the press called her a "feminine James Dean."

In 1959, after appearing in several more films, including Ten North Frederick and Compulsion Varsi decided a Hollywood career was not really in her blood. She gave up movie stardom to go live in Vermont with her young son. "I'm not reconciled to being in movies. I'm only reconciled to being a mother."

Declaring that "acting is destructive to me," Varsi, in many ways, reminds us of another independent actress (and cosmic baseball player) who eschewed the glitter of Hollywood. We speak here, of course, of Frances Farmer. Like Farmer, Varsi would return to films. In 1968 she played the role of Sally Leroy, an acid-tripping member of the U.S. Congress in the movie Wild in the Streets.

As to Varsi's baseball prowess, little is known. Apparently somebody in Pisces management knows something the rest of us don't.

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