sentences:  During 1963 spring training in a Fort Lauderdale, Florida, bar, a disagreement between Bridges and a female patron resulted in her shooting him in the leg.The resulting negative publicity annoyed the image-conscious Yankee brass and may have been a major factor in them selling his contract to last-place Washington on November 30, 1963.His recovery from the gunshot wound was apparently complete, but Bridges never regained the dominance that he had shown in 1962.