Word: bullpens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Texas and so unnerved the Angels that they dropped the first three games of the climactic four-game series in Kansas City. Meanwhile, players of lesser means and greater resilience, the Minnesota Twins, were undone by a quirk. Former Royal Jamie Quirk, who began the season as a bullpen coach in St. Louis, was vacationing in the Ozarks the week before last when Cleveland called for an emergency catcher. On the way there, he paused in Kansas City to roast retired Pitcher Paul Splittorff and informed Third Baseman George Brett, "You may have to give me a part of your...
...yourself what exactly she was supposed to have done that had Washington wondering if she could survive on the ticket-and one conservative columnist wryly advising Democrats to start warming up Sargent Shriver in the bullpen...
...career. The sophomore yielded just three hits and one run in 5 1/3 innings. "That's how we expected Doug to pitch." Crimson Coach Alex Nahigian said after the game. "That's a big plus for us." With reliever Cecil Cox still nursing a sore arm. Nahigian needs bullpen help for this weekend's Eastern League contests at second-place Yale and fourth-place Brown...
...story of his first game at Brooklyn's Ebbets Field, and just as he is giving up a double to Sam Mele, who should happen by in a Red Sox suit but Mele. This is the charm of spring training. Ted Williams is studying Clemens from the rightfield bullpen and slowly working his wrists. Carl Yastrzemski looks up from giving instructions to a nonroster player in a distant batting cage. And sitting in the stands, smiling softly under a baseball cap, is Cecil ("Tex") Hughson, 68, the Red Sox pitching phenom of the '40s, who wore...
...holding the ball. She was a gamer. The enthusiasm of those people-I'm not kidding, you had to drag them off the field. Well, it was inspiring." As the other Pirates start to arrive, Kaat pulls on his glove. "Just think," he says, heading out to the bullpen. "I don't even have...