Word: baseman
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Across the meadow, Tommy Lasorda is singing about the Dodgers' latest "pheenoms": Greg Brock, a 25-year-old first baseman who has played four years in the minor leagues and 33 days in the majors, and Mike Marshall, a 23-year-old rightfielder who has never played the position before. "Tommy is good with young players," Anderson says. "They haven't heard his stories...
...fact that the Dodgers have provided the National League's past four Rookies of the Year, and the candidate of the moment is Brock, who on the strength of 17 major-league at-bats has been handed Steve Garvey's old position. Indirectly, Marshall is replacing Third Baseman Ron Cey, Pedro Guerrero having transferred there from rightfield to make room for Marshall. Lasorda has told both newcomers, "When I replaced Walter Alston six years ago, all I heard was that I was replacing a legend. I said, 'I'm not worried about replacing a legend...
...chance to mingle with the holdover heroes of '69 and be coached by them. Finally, he would get to play against the aging Chicago stars at Scottsdale Stadium, where the team had trained in '69. Among them: Hall of Fame Infielder Ernie Banks, slugging Third Baseman Ron Santo, homeric Outfielder Billy Williams and solid Second Baseman Glenn Beckert...
Music blared while the victors doused one another with champagne. The Los Angeles Dodgers' former first baseman. Steve Garvey, who came to The Game with his agent. Harvard glad Jerry Kapsteim, after negotiating with Yankees' owner George Steinbrenner in New York, stood at the center of the locker room having his picture taken with Crimson wingback Jim Garvey. Somebody tossed Garvey (Steve, not Jim) a jersey with the wingback's No.33 on it, and the one-time National League MVP held it up during the snapshot session. But for the most part, Garvey, the man who could ask and receive...
...scowl but burst out grinning. In fact there was almost no ugliness to this show at all, except for a profane few minutes in the final game when hefty Home Plate Umpire Lee Weyer had to dance the Cardinals' sore-shinned pitcher Joaquin Andujar away from Brewer Second Baseman Jim Gantner, who had said something about a hot dog. During the playoffs, the Cardinals' rookie centerfielder, Willie McGee, was slurred on television as resembling the movie creature E.T. But McGee, who hit two home runs in one World Series game, had his revenge...