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...been sitting on the bench for almost two hours in what felt like the middle of a deep freeze...

Author: By Jeffrey A. Zucker, | Title: Shivering Stickwomen slip by URI | 10/26/1983 | See Source »

...winning homer in Game 1 (2-1) and said, "I honestly didn't think I'd still be here by now. I have not accepted this platooning role. I don't want to be that kind of player next year." Maddox watched from the bench as Baltimore won the second game...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: A Series of Replacements | 10/24/1983 | See Source »

...believe that, and he is ready to shop himself around "to any team with a chance to win, because I don't think I could play if there was no chance to win." Or maybe it is time for him "to swim to Japan." With Rose on the bench even for a day, it seemed odd to think that a World Series was going on, the composite classic where even the managers came in twos and threes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: A Series of Replacements | 10/24/1983 | See Source »

...Murray. He and Mike Schmidt wore the same frown. (All statistics will be rendered meaningless at the outset of World War III.) The Orioles had unloaded their supply of pinch hitters all at once. (If everybody feels they're somebody, you end up with a team on the bench as good as the one on the field...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: A Series of Replacements | 10/24/1983 | See Source »

While Gizzi certainly gave the fans their money's worth on that play alone, his performance seemed all the more impressive because he was a third-stringer coming off the bench...

Author: By Jim Silver, | Title: Yes, Frank, He Can Pass | 10/24/1983 | See Source »

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