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...want to throw smoke, he is not shy about switching to his curve or change-up, even when the count is 3 and 2. By that time batters are usually so intimidated that they simply stand motionless, watching a called third strike. Says Oriole all-star Third Baseman Brooks Robinson: "Is there fear? Sure there's fear. There's an old baseball saying, 'Your heart might be in the batter's box, but your...
Harvard's baseball and lacrosse teams went to the polls yesterday to elect the captains who must try to put their squads on the championship trail next year. Second baseman Barry Cronin earned the baseball title while Kevin McCall and Bruce Bruckmann will share the honor in lacrosse...
...only team in the National League East given no chance whatsoever to top the division. How could they? In a frenzy of house cleaning after the disappointing fifth-place 1973 season, exasperated Owner Phil Wrigley had traded away his strongest players like so many bubble-gum cards: slugging Third Baseman Ron Santo, All-Star Second Baseman Glenn Beckert and the team's longtime pitching ace, Ferguson Jenkins. Result: the Cubs toppled into last place in 1974. Wrigley's response: last winter he unloaded lifetime .296 Hitter Billy Williams to the Oakland A's for three little-used...
...Owner Charlie Finley with a much publicized $100,000 bonus ten years ago and traded to Chicago in 1971, is finally playing up to his early promise. The clubhouse jester and clean-up hitter was batting .337. Not far behind at .321 was Manny Trillo, a surprisingly effective second baseman acquired last winter in the trade for Williams...
...Cubs' only strength. A year ago the team had the worst fielding record in the league; now it has a sure-handed outfield, as well as a first-class double-play combination. With some intensive tutoring by low-key Manager Jim Marshall, a former major league first baseman who took over the Cubs midway into last season, Chicago fielders are no longer making careless errors...