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...earned run average is 1.85, and Lasorda calls him "the Hope diamond...
...learned from his barber that a shaved head was now a "Kojak" --in the old days they had been called "Yul Brynners.") Sure, he was rough, often abrasive. Admittedly there was little of the intellectual about him. But who would you want when you faced a cornered pack of diamond-smuggling mobsters: Theo Kojak or John Finely? So much for urbanity. And for all his gruffness, Kojak could display that heart of gold all macho crime fighters are obliged to possess. That was where the lollipops came in--handed to ailing grandmothers and young Greek relatives alike...
Because of a schedule mix-up, the Crimson B squad played the Norwich A team. Even so, Harvard ran away to a 20-8 victory on the strength of tries by Mike Jemison, Mike Foust, Jim Miller and Steve Saxon, and two conversions off the foot of "Diamond" Jim Durham...
...baseball: newscasters, congressmen, Johnny Carson, Penthouse, even political columnists. Why should anyone, they say, who hits a ball with a stick around a grass field earn more than the president of the United States? College graduates ought to pass up law, medicine, and business, and head for the baseball diamond. With all due respect to the fans, commentators, columnists, and owners who utter cries of indignation at those fat contracts and predict the demise of the game, there are a number of justifications for the players' present bargaining position...
This was supposed to be it. The Big One. Superfreshman Ronnie Perry and his Holy Cross baseball mates staging a diamond tug-of-war with Loyal Park and his Kiddie Korps. Plenty of fans, oodles of sunshine, buy me some peanuts and crackerjacks...