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...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-and pained-reaction. Lyle paused between banquet speeches long enough to scream, "Trade...
What Martin has in mind is to employ the strategy pioneered by Reds' Manager Sparky Anderson: pull his starters after six innings or so in order to feed the talented bullpen. That tactic could save fragile arms, but it will prevent healthy pitchers from going the full nine innings that build stats-and egos. No less an expert than Lyle acknowledges: "Show me a starting pitcher who doesn't like to finish what he starts. They...
Small strip-mining companies that employ ten to 25 men and produce as much as 500 tons of coal a day remained open primarily by turning themselves into armed fortresses. At the Crooks strip mine, one of only two mines in southern Indiana that stayed constantly open during the strike, the trouble started in December when 300 striking miners showed up and asked Mineowner Ed Crooks to stop operations. Instead, he spent $6,000 on guns and ammunition to arm his 24 workers and hired half a dozen guards to keep watch. On the wall in the trailer that serves...
...side effects centers on two plans known by the acronym TIP, for tax-based incomes policy. Both call for a system of federally set guideposts,* and would use federal taxes as a means of discouraging large wage settlements. The main difference between the two plans is that one would employ a stick, the other a carrot...
Blacks and other minorities must employ economically pragmatic solutions to eliminate poverty and unemployment in America, Bobby Seale, co-founder and former chairman of the Black Panther Party, told a group of about 200 students at Wellesley College last night...