Word: catchers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Chicago Cubs signed free-agent pitchers Ferguson Jenkins and Bill Campbell and traded pitcher Mike Krukow to Philadelphia for pitchers Dickie Noles and Dan Larson and catcher Keith Moreland. In other baseball news, Brewers third baseman and designated hitter Sal Bando officially announced his retirement, the Red Sox extended manager Ralph Houk's contract until 1984, and George Steinbrenner has signed manager Bob Lemon to "a lifetime contract in the organization" that includes managing the Yankees...
...sounded like the San Diego Chicken in heat," said Johnny Carson of the first TV appearance of the Big Blue Wrecking Crew. Four members of the World Champion Los Angeles Dodgers made up the group: Outfielders Jay Johnstone, 35, and Rick Monday, 35, Pitcher Jerry Reuss, 31, and Catcher Steve Yeager, 32. On the Crew's new single-to be released this week-side one's rendition of We Are Champions is bested in sheer painful execution only by the flipside, New York, New York. Admits Yeager: "It took us six hours to record and about 15 hours...
...next day, Jerry Reuss outdueled Ron Guidry, 2-1; the Dodgers led, three games to two. "Their catcher beat our catcher; their pitcher beat our pitcher," Steinbrenner carped. The Dodger catcher, Steve Yeager, hit the winning home run in the seventh inning, right after Pedro Guerrero had homered to tie. Meanwhile, Yankee Catcher Rick Cerone looked overeager to his boss. "Cerone took us out of two innings first-ball hitting," fumed George, "and everyone knows Guidry's ERA in the last three innings this season is over 10." Still, with Guidry steaming along on a two-hitter, would Steinbrenner...
Guidry then worked the count on Yeager to 1-2 before the Dodger catcher jacked a chest-high fastball into the stands, near the spot where Guerrero's shot had landed...
Valenzuela came within inches of being taken downtown again in that inning, when Yankee catcher Rick Cerone hit a double that rebounded off the pipe railing on top of the left-field fence. Cerone got his homer in the third when he pulled a two-run blast to put the Yankees ahead, 4-3, but the Dodgers went ahead for keeps, 5-4, in the fifth, the winning run coming when Ron Cey scored on a double play gound-out off reliever Rudy...