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...single, a Dave Singleton error, and--you guessed it--a walk loaded the bases, and it was at that point Penn decided to start doing some work of its own. A sacrifice fly brought in run number four, and a single by the hitting star of the day, first baseman Rick Yost (a triple and a homer yet to come) made...
...great thing about spring training is that it's almost as important where the foul balls land as who wins the games. When a White Sox batter lofted one into the parking lot along the first base line of Payne Field in Sarasota, Pirates first baseman Willie Stargell turned to umpire Nestor Chylak and casually remarked, "Somebody got a nod on his car. Did it hit the top or the hood...
...nearly three weeks Florida and Arizona boasted some of the most elegant of America's unemployed. Locked out of their spring-training camps because of a dispute with the baseball club owners, major leaguers were all over the sunny sandlots at loose ends. The Cincinnati Reds' third baseman, Pete Rose, arrived in his Silver Shadow Rolls-Royce to work out at a West Tampa park normally used by Little Leaguers. New York Mets Pitching Ace Tom Seaver cadged $2 each from a pickup team of ballplayers to buy baseballs for early-March makeshift practice sessions. Like a youthful...
...gets it is always the last to know--I play with guys I know are never going to make it." Same thing with trades. Once Bristol was playing the Milwaukee Double A club. Everything was as usual. The other team took the infield and a big first baseman was out there throwing. Then a voice from a dugout called him in and he never came back out. They'd told him to pack his bags and get going. This could happen to Brayton at any moment: in early December, the player-to-be-named-later from the Ferguson Jenkins trade...
Died. Jacob Nelson Fox, 47, pepperpot second baseman who was the American League's Most Valuable Player in 1959 when he led the Chicago White Sox to their first league championship in 40 years; of skin cancer; in Baltimore. With the White Sox from 1950, "Nellie" Fox made his reputation as a player who liked to hit with an old-fashioned milk-bottle-shaped bat, chew a giant wad of tobacco, and hang a red bandana from the hip pocket of his uniform. Nicknamed "Mighty Mite," the diminutive Fox led the American League in most seasons (twelve) with...