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...Bert Campanaris who provided the home town heroics, as he rapped a Mike Cuellar pitch over everything in the 11th to put Oakland ahead, 2-1, in the series. Cuellar had allowed only three hits prior to that in a brilliant duel with the As southpaw Ken Holtzman...
...rest of the defense, i.e. the secondary, looks very hazy and gray The loss of Steve Golden, Bert Broyer and Rich Bridich left a vacuum at adjuster which still exists. Sophomores Ted Jadick and George Newhouse might fill the gap, but neither has proved he can handle the job. Restic has even talked of scrapping the adjuster altogether and throwing in another defensive back...
...BERT F. EDWARDS...
Side two is pretty ethereal. "Green" may be a song sung by a leaf, who's sure? but it's definitely about nature. Morrison's first non-original since the old Bert Berns days over at Bang Records, the song's basically whimsical nature is belied by a funky, uptempo arrangement right out of Sinatra doing "That's Life." It's the good old uptempo blues: sax solos, blues guitar phrases abound. Morrison torch sings it, bending notes, phrases, whole lines, and finishing with a properly respectful...
...Bert Englebert Award, a joke award initiated five years ago, was given to Goodenow. The award, which one fan called "possibly the ugliest and most useless trophy ever devised," shows a hockey player wearing rolling skates and set to take a slap shot even though he has no stick...