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...WITCHES OF EASTWICK by John Updike; Knopf; 336 pages...
...appease his accusers; indeed, it looks a lot like a gauntlet flung down at feminism. Readers should get ready for a particularly hot summer. Some of the squawking at beaches will be coming not from seagulls but from liberated ladies and gents who are reading The Witches of Eastwick...
...Phillies got reasonably serious in their half of the fifth, knocking out L.A. starter Burt Hooton and stringing together five singles for three runs and a 7-4 ball game. Steve Yeager, the Dodger catcher, then answered back in the sixth when he took Philadelphia reliever Rawly Eastwick deep for the Dodgers eighth tally...
Even baseball's trial separation, the winter offseason, produced problems in the Yankees' big, unhappy family. Steinbrenner plunged once more into the free-agent market and, two megasalaries later, became the proud owner of Rich Gossage, the Pittsburgh Pirates' fireballing relief pitcher, and Rawly Eastwick of the St.,Louis Cardinals, who had an off year in 1977 but was the League's top reliever for the Reds in 1976. Since the American League's No. 1 fireman, Cy Young Winner Sparky Lyle, was already in Yankee employ, Steinbrenner's bullpen overkill brought immediate...
...roll call of stars; the problem will be finding room in the sky for all of them. Lyle's trade talk was prompted by the fact that he claims to need almost daily stints on the mound to maintain his effectiveness. The same is true of Gossage and Eastwick. Says Gossage: "There's enough work for Sparky and me, but I don't know if there is enough work for the three of us. I don't know what the Yankees had in mind...