Lange is featured in A Bitter Cup of Coffee: How MLB and the Players Association Threw 874 Retirees a Curve, a 2010 book written by Douglas J. Gladstone about the plight of 874 retired ballplayers whose major-league careers ended between 1947 and 1979 who were denied pensions because of the Major League Baseball Players Association's failure to retroactively included them as beneficiaries in the amended vesting requirements in the collective agreement that resolved the 1980 MLB strike. His three full years in the majors was one shy of qualifying for the pension requirement during his time as an active player. He was not able to earn that needed additional full year because the Angels denied him the opportunity to be selected in the 1976 MLB expansion draft by removing him from its 40-man roster and a rotator cuff tear to his throwing arm in 1977.[4][5]
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