One of Theo Epstein's most valued baseball men, Bill Lajoie, who has spent 50 years in the game and won a World Series in 1984 in his first year as general manager of the Detroit Tigers, used the occasion of accepting a scouting award last week at the winter meetings to make an appeal on behalf of a friend. (Full article: 2425 words)

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