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...people are taking it. WRKO radio is advertising a name-that-song contest which offers the grand prize of a shark hunt; a trip to Martha's Vineyard where the movie was filmed, two tickets to Jaws and a "shark repellent kit"--a baseball bat. Some...
...York and San Francisco Giants for 65 years, and one of the most popular front-office men in baseball; in West Palm Beach, Fla. Raised in New York's tough Hell's Kitchen, Brannick dropped out of school at age 13 to become a bat boy for the Giants' legendary manager, John ("Little Napoleon") McGraw. From the era of Christy Mathewson to that of Willie Mays, Brannick served as the Giants' traveling secretary, winning friends and influencing sportswriters...
...successful Expo '74. Spurney is considering a variety of cost-cutting and money-raising stratagems (the train now costs $20,000 per display day). But he also might well think about more stops at unjaded towns like Archbold, where a look at Joe DiMaggio's baseball bat and rocks from the moon is apparently still worth two dollars from the kitchen sugar bowl...
...muscular 6 ft., 190 Ibs., Washington whips his 34-oz. bat across the plate with a fluid, level swing, rifling his line drives in all directions. He has startling speed (32 stolen bases so far this year...
There is no question that his confidence is robust. Says Washington: "I knew I was good the first time I picked up a bat." That was when he was eleven, but Washington did not flip for baseball at the tune. In fact, he shunned it all the way through Berkeley High School in Berkeley, Calif., where his real passion was basketball. (Small by basketball standards, Washington leaps so high that he has tune to dunk two balls on the same jump.) During the summers he played baseball on a city team, and it was there in 1972 that...