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...Boyd Jefferies, 56, chairman of the Los Angeles-based Jefferies & Co. investment firm, which specializes in assembling large blocks of stock in takeover targets. Jefferies recently supplied Canadian Raider Robert Campeau with $1.8 billion worth of stock in Allied Stores, a move that eased a $3.6 billion takeover of the retail chain. Jefferies has acknowledged receiving a subpoena, and told the New York Times that he was innocent of wrongdoing. Also served was Michael Singer, 37, a former Jefferies senior vice president who | switched in October to the Manhattan-based Salomon Brothers investment firm. Singer resigned his new post last...
Boston pitcher Dennis "Oil Can" Boyd had this to say after Canseco knocked his best screwball for a homer: "He will be legendary...
...Dennis ("Oil Can") Boyd's locker was a portrait of Satchel Paige wearing his Negro Leagues Kansas City Monarchs uniform. Over the 39 years they have been allowed to win World Series' games, six black pitchers have done it: Joe Black of Brooklyn, Bob Gibson of St. Louis, Jim ("Mudcat") Grant of Minnesota, John Wyatt of Boston, John ("Blue Moon") Odom of Oakland and Grant Jackson of Pittsburgh. Before the third game, when the Mets appeared ready to be vanquished if not swept in Boston, Boyd began to imagine himself in the baggy flannels of another day. By the time...
...Davey Johnson had less opportunity to be serene. But even with a full parcel of rest against worn Third-Game Winner Bob Ojeda, Cy Young-elect Roger Clemens' near best was just not quite enough. Darling could test his dream one final time against Dennis ("Oil Can") Boyd. Dave Henderson and Lenny Dykstra, Boston's and New York's respective symbols of play-off miracles, kept it up through six games, until Hurst began sending Dykstra back to earth swinging and stamping his feet. Several centuries ago, the Sox were down to Henderson's last swing in California...
Singing Frank Sinatra's "New York, New York" and the Mets theme song, "Meet the Mets," the group competed with a bevy of Sox fans who chanted "Oil Can, Oil Can," is the nickname of Dennis Boyd--the scheduled Sox starter in the seventh and deciding World Series game...