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...gambled all my life and have been in a lot of photo finishes, but this is the biggest I've ever lost," Boston manager Don Zimmer--who pulled Torrez two batters two late, reliever Bob Stanley one batter too late (after Jackson's HR), and mysteriously pinch hit Bob Bailey for Jack Brohamer in the seventh inning--said afterward...
...halfbacks Kathy Batter, Gia Johnson and Sarah Fischer, up from center fullback, are some of the best athletes on the team and need only to learn to co-ordinate their play with that of the fullbacks to weld a goal-tight shield around Mahon...
Politics and nature combined to batter Iran cruelly last week. In a mountainous farm region in eastern Iran, the strongest earthquake recorded anywhere in 1978 reduced villages to what one survivor called "a mound of rubble, bent iron beams and dirt." At least 9,000 were feared dead in the quake, which measured 7.7 on the Richter scale and was centered near the town of Tabas...
...opening lead was just a fleeting bit of glory as the Tigers came back to blast starter Luis Tiant--Jason Thompson smashing a grand slam before Tiant had retired a batter. That shot sent Tiant to the showers; and reliever Bill Campbell took over until the ninth, when he was bailed out by Dick Drago and then Hassler...
Pitcher Don Sutton struggled with his control at the start of the season, yet he has won twelve games, against nine losses, mixing up curves and fastballs that leave batters fuming. First Baseman Steve Garvey, ramrod straight in the batter's box, the Jock Armstrong of baseball, has had that regular Garvey year: M.V.P. in the All-Star game, hitting .289, with 84 runs batted in. Rightfielder Reggie Smith, who has been alternately brooding or brilliant in the past for Boston and St. Louis, is now a happily artful Dodger. He has a tremendous arm, a pulverizing...