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...other sports news, All-Star third baseman Sal Bando became the fifth Oakland A's free agent to fly Charlie Finley's coop. Bando, a superior fielder who also averaged 88 runs batted in during his nine years with the Athletics, signed with the impotent Milwaukee Brewers, who tabbed him as their first choice in the free agent draft...
...well as on Finley himself, and is telling her boss what's in his stars, athletically speaking. Maybe Finley shouldn't listen. Brady says Kansas City will top Oakland in the Western Division, and that three A's aces, Pitcher Vida Blue, Third Baseman Sal Bando and Outfielder Joe Rodi, are headed for injuries. Specific game results? The A's will win in Boston June 15 and 16. Brady is less precise about her own future in baseball. "Mr. Finley is rather difficult to work with," she concedes. "When I tell him negative things, he gets...
...Most notably, Oakland's Vida Blue, Joe Rudi, Sal Bando, Gene Tenace, Bert Campaneris and Bill North; St. Louis' Al Hrabosky and Ted Simmons; Philadelphia's Dick Allen and Dave Cash; Minnesota's Bert Blyleven; Baltimore's Ken Holtzman; Boston's Carlton Fisk; Cincinnati's Don Gullett, and Graig Nettles of the Yankees...
...eighth, Bando, who tatooed the short left-field wall all day, doubled for his fourth hit. But Drago squirmed out of the jam, striking out Jackson and getting Gene Tenace on a line drive to Yastrzemski...
...championships. There is often anarchy in the clubhouse, with players in an uproar about Finley or, in a spillover of antagonism, battling each other. That they still win is a tribute to sheer skill and unshakable self-confidence. "We win because we have guys who love the challenge," says Bando. "We have a nucleus of gutsy players who don't know how to lose...