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Steinbrenner leads a syndicate of 19, which purchased a wreckage of a Yankee franchise from CBS in 1973. He eased out Manager Ralph Houk, hired and fired Bill Virdon, purchased perhaps $7.5 million worth of baseball talent and brought in Billy Martin, who had been a nonconforming battler on the conformist Yankees...
...coaches can always find solace in hopes for the future. Lee had special praise for D'agostino, a hard-nosed battler whose one loss came against Yale in a last-ditch struggle for a pin. And D'agostino is only a junior, while sophomore Beling, a fall footballer, looks like the heavyweight of the future. Lee expects him to be unbeatable after he finds the experience to go with his "outstanding athletic ability...
...Nesson, probably because of his modest manner, remains unknown to many undergraduates and even law students here. The defender of Ellsberg and Edelin, the prosecutor of the Ku Klux Klan, the battler against wiretapping plays it quiet and close to his chest. "I prefer," he says, "to remain out of the public...
Agnew Rejected. As majority leader, O'Neill admits, "I'm a terrifically Democratic partisan." He has shown himself to be a skilled and salty battler with the White House, a role that Speaker Albert has never been able to fulfill because of his natural tendency to avoid controversy. When the President called for cooperation last summer between the Administration and the Congress-and then threatened to use some vetoes -O'Neill cracked: "It was hard to tell whether the President was calling for teamwork-or a scrimmage...
...Battler, Ernest Hemingway...