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...Yankees, who lack farmclub talent, the team would have been crippled by the early-season miseries of Pitchers Don Gullett and Catfish Hunter had not the remarkable left arm of Ron Guidry saved the day. Guidry finished with 25 wins and just three losses, one of the best records in modern baseball history. There were other problems-there always are with the Yankees-but the team created by Owner George Steinbrenner's money managed to make one of the most remarkable comebacks in baseball history. New York rallied from 14 games behind the Boston...
...Angeles Third Baseman Ron Cey, who came up to stay from Albuquerque in 1972, did him exactly one better. Cey is dubbed "the Penguin" by his teammates, and he runs as though he were wearing bedroom slippers. No matter; he could have walked the bases after crunching a Catfish Hunter pitch for a three-run homer. Counting an ear lier RBI, the final score was the Penguin 4, the Yankees...
Oklahoma's Lukfata Lake. A $48 million dam on Glover Creek in the southeast corner of the state would have provided flood control and water supplies. But the major current beneficiary of the additional fresh water would be one large catfish farm...
Jackson doubled home Roy White and Munson in the third to give the Yankees a 2-0 lead, which looked safe as New York starter Jim "Catfish" Hunter allowed just four hits in five innings, one of those, an RBI single by Ron Cey in the fourth...
Brett's first homer came in the first inning off Jim "Catfish" Hunter, New York's starter. The lead was short-lived as Reggie Jackson blasted a Paul Splittorff pitch over the right field fence in the second...