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...while amassing runs at a nine-plus per game clip. This was the best Sun Devil club since the National Champs of 1965, which boasted Rick Monday, Sal Bando and Reggie Jackson in its lineup. The 1977 version was a star-studded lineup even without the services of first baseman Mike Hudgens, the nation's number two RBI man with 72. Hudgens was unavailable as a result of a virtual coach's nightmare; he lost concentration while playing catch, and the ball shattered his nose. But no one could take up the slack better than the nation's number...
...best player in baseball. The National League's Most Valuable Player for two straight years, Morgan says proudly: "I want people to expect a lot of Joe Morgan. Success scares some people. Me, I have to have it." The Cincinnati Reds' cocky second baseman has a three-year contract with the club that will net him nearly $1.5 million, but he could add substantially to his earnings by endorsing more products (he stars in several TV commercials) and making personal appearances. However, he maintains, "I'm a private guy. The less I do after the World Series...
Although he allowed few hits, hurler McOsker was not particularly sharp. In the fifth inning, he hung a curve which second baseman Bob DiGrazia belted for another four bagger, to make the score...
...freshman second-baseman, now with six homers on the year, said afterwards "Pearson served me up two curveballs that just hung there and said...
When Cincinnati Second Baseman Joe Morgan comes to bat, his eyes widen noticeably, a palpable sign to the man on the mound that Morgan is studying him with the intensity of a leopard crouching in a tree. On the bases, he measures the movements of the game just as keenly: taking the millisecond advantage, then streaking toward a stolen base, judging the parabola of a teammate's hit before springing around the bases, sliding in just ahead of the throw. Joe Morgan, the National League's Most Valuable Player for two years in a row, is surely...