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...major claim to fame until then was the co-authorship of a Partridge Family hit called Doesn't Somebody Want to Be Wanted, was smart enough to see Springsteen's talent and brash enough to spirit him away from Tinker. Appel got Springsteen to work up a clutch of new songs by simply calling him frequently and asking him to come into New York. Springsteen would jump on the bus and have a new tune ready by the time he crossed the Hudson...
...canny, clownish manager of New York City's worst and best teams, the brand-new Mets and the old-gold Yankees. Hardly a man is now alive who remembers Casey at the bat. For the record, Stengel was a hitter who had a knack for connecting in the clutch. To use his own phrase, he treated the ball as if he hated it-and he sometimes fielded that...
...heard the end of that blunder from my AL friends. This year I can't help but go with Boston in seven. My heart tells me that the Reds are probably the better team, but the Red Sox have performed spectacularly in the playoffs and have come through with clutch wins all during the season. And when it comes down to the wire next week, Fenway itself is going to be a factor. Alvin Dark said that Fenway is the only park in the league where the home team really has an advantage. Sparky Anderson will soon learn what...
...calm while awaiting, then struggling to comply with, the demands of the S.L.A. Catherine, his wife, genteel daughter of a Georgia telephone executive, was dumbfounded by the violence and noticeably more anxious. A devout Roman Catholic, she spent many hours in prayer. In their helplessness, the parents began to clutch at straws: two psychics were invited to the Hearsts' house in suburban Hillsborough and ran their fingers over a map of Northern California seeking "impulses" of Patty's whereabouts. Searching for a way to reach his daughter, Randolph Hearst paid a call on "Death Row Jeff," an inmate...
...defense played well, exceptionally well when it had to in the clutch," Phillips said. "I'm proud of our defense, but New England sure missed Jim Plunkett...