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Neither of these teams approaches the stature of the 1927 New York Yankees, but each has more than enough arms and fewer than enough bats to leave some nice anomalies on the record. Buddy Biancalana's passel of hits could be a mystery for the ages. Pitcher Jackson was fanned five straight times and rejoiced: "I tied a record for that?" In the fifth game, the winning team struck out 15 times. Cardinal Reliever Todd Worrell, 26, a late bloomer of two months' standing in the major leagues, struck out the only half-dozen batters he faced. This matched...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: A Gracious War Between the State | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

...that's nothing compared with what The Melatonin Miracle promises. Its authors, Dr. Walter Pierpaoli of the Biancalana-Masera Foundation for the Aged in Ancona, Italy, and Dr. William Regelson of the Medical College of Virginia in Richmond, have taken the fact that the body produces less melatonin as it grows older to make extravagant claims about its antiaging properties. They write that ingesting small amounts of melatonin will allow people to turn back the clock and live 120 years or more. Their evidence? An experiment in which Pierpaoli transplanted the pineal glands of old mice into young ones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LOST FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH | 2/5/1996 | See Source »

...Jays have never won a pennant, those chokers," he continued. "In 1985, we were up three games to one against the Royals. This was the Royal team with Buddy Biancalana at shortstop and Frank White hitting cleanup. And we lost to them...

Author: By Theodore D. Chuang, | Title: This Year, Someone's Gotta Win | 10/3/1989 | See Source »

...their fame in 1985 (though perhaps not their fortunes). Terry Forster, for example, became a national hero when the Late Night host referred to the ex-Braves hurler as a "fat tub of goo." Another of Letterman's pet projects last summer was Kansas City Royals shortstop Buddy Biancalana, who suffered through a horrendous. 188 regular season campaign. Ten points if you can remember when Biancalana's first seven consecutive starts of the season occured...

Author: By Geoffrey Simon, | Title: 1986 Sports Cube Baseball Trivia Quiz | 4/5/1986 | See Source »

ANAHEIM, Calif--Pat Sheridan drove in three runs and Steve Balboni and Buddy Biancalana cracked two-run homers Tuesday night as the Kansas City Royals defeated the California Angels 10-0 to take a two-game lead in the American League West...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Scoreboard | 9/19/1984 | See Source »

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