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...Southern California-UCLA batter, with the victor winning the Pacific-8 championship and the host spot in the covered Rose Bowl, highlights today, gridiron action...
...arch-Archie is Alf Garnett, a spiteful, bitter dockside worker in Till Death Us Do Part, the model for Family. The fathers of Sanford and son are Steptoe and son, on the BBC series of the same name, a pair of cockney rag and bone men who batter themselves and each other relentlessly against a dead end of life. Both Yorkin and Lear adaptations follow the same recipe: take one BBC show, add the milk of human kindness and stir for 30 minutes. "One of our major concerns was not to make Sanford look too grim," says Yorkin. "The Steptoe...
...instance, there was his performance in a game against the Texas Rangers in June. Summoned to the mound in the eighth inning, with the Yankees leading 3-2, Ranger runners on second and third, and no one out, Lyle intentionally walked Home-Run Threat Frank Howard, the first batter he faced. Then, with the bases loaded, he coolly struck out the next three batters on ten pitches...
...player ever to be inducted, Sandy Koufax, 36, thanked the coach "who pushed me, shoved me, embarrassed me and made me work, and thank God for him." After similar expressions from Lefty Gomez, Early Wynn and Buck Leonard, it came time for the award to Josh Gibson, the greatest batter in the Negro leagues. Gibson died in 1947, but Josh Gibson Jr. was on hand to receive the plaque: "I want to say a personal word to my father: Wake up, Dad, you just made...
Bench is thinking every minute, however-about every batter in the box, every runner on base, every pitch in his battery mate's repertoire. It is his brains and his calm, confident manner that elevate him to a special plateau above the merely superior receivers. He knows better than any of them how to keep his hurlers mixing their pitches, and will not hesitate to cajole or even bully a reluctant hurler into following his commands. Once Maloney shook Bench off repeatedly on Johnny's call for a curve; he wanted to throw his patented fastball. Bench persisted...