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...home trying to score on Rick Burleson's grounder to short, but Doyle followed with his game-winning hit off reliever Tippy Martinez. The ball was headed toward Chris Chambliss for what appeared to be the third out of the inning, before taking a high bounce over the first baseman's head and continuing into right field...
With Kansas City still in last place when the baseball draft began in 1965, Finley took advantage of early-round selections to sign Outfielder Rick Monday and Third Baseman Sal Bando. The next year he grabbed Reggie Jackson for $85,000. In 1968, the year Finley transplanted the A's to Oakland, he flew to Mansfield, La., to corral a high school fastballer named Vida Blue for a more modest $35,000. Three years ago, Bargain Hunter Finley paid $3,000 for an obscure 17-year-old named Claudell Washington. This year Washington is the A's leading hitter, batting...
What Finley did to Mike Andrews is something the A's will not soon forget. After Andrews made two costly errors in the second game of the 1973 World Series against the New York Mets, Finley announced that the team physician had found the second baseman unfit to play because of a sore arm. Bent on making room for another player to strengthen his roster, Finley dropped Andrews from the team. In protest, the A's wore his No. 17 on their sleeves at a workout before the third game. To a man, they insist that Finley ordered the doctor...
...Bull's emergence has come as a surprise. In 1973 he hit 29 home runs, but few noticed because the Phillies were deep in last place. Last year he tore ligaments in his right knee and lost half a season. This spring the Phillies grabbed First Baseman Dick Allen, who led the American League in home runs and controversial publicity last year, and taciturn Greg was again forgotten. But only briefly. Luzinski, for one, is not surprised by his showing. "Basically," he says, "I'm just playing up to my ability...
...Luzinski looks more the linebacker than the leftfielder. But he is a gentle giant. Second Baseman Dave Cash, a Tom Thumb by comparison, calls him "fat boy" with impunity, and Shortstop Larry Bowa gets away with announcing that "if Dave and I were playing for the Reds, Johnny Bench would have 120 runs batted in by now." But Bowa also remembers the time he goaded the Bull once too often. "He came at me, I ducked, and he hit John Vukovich instead. Then I ran into the bathroom and locked the door...