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Martin's pitching coach and longtime drinking buddy Art Fowler smartened up the staff-and there have been charges that he moistened them up as well. The A's remarkable pitching record, critics protest, has been aided by some slippery business. A team does not suddenly reduce its ERA from 4.74 in 1979 to a league-leading 3.46 last year, it is argued, without putting a little something extra on the ball. Claims Minnesota First Base Coach Karl Kuehl: "They're getting it off their foreheads and the umpires don't have the guts...
Martin's most remarkable achievement has been to infuse his pitching staff with the skill and confidence to become winners. Under his goading and the tutelage of Pitching Coach Art Fowler, a longtime aide and drinking buddy, Oakland's strong young arms suddenly became awesome. In 1979 none of the five starters won more than a dozen games or had an earned run average below 4.22. Last year they had the league's top team ERA and Ace Mike Norris (22-9) finished second to Baltimore's Steve Stone in Cy Young balloting. Look at them...
Some opponents insist that Fowler's pitchers are using more than sunflower seeds. Oakland, it has been widely charged, has become the home of the spitball. Fowler insists that he merely teaches his charges to throw the "dry spitter," a sinker that behaves just like the genuine article. Whatever it is, the A's pitchers do not yield threatening clouts very often. When they do, the fleetest outfield in baseball (and one of the heaviest-hitting) goes to work. Leftfielder Rickey Henderson (.348, 19 runs scored and ten steals), Centerfielder Dwayne Murphy (.280, 20 RBIs) and Rightfielder Tony...
...FREESTYLE 1) Towne, DougArtzona 4:16.54 2) Hillencamp, John Florida 4:18.25 3) Szmidt, Peter California 4:19.11 200-yd. INDIVIDUAL MEDLEY 1) Barett, William American Record U.C.L.A. 1 45.01 2) Spann, Scott Texas 1 47.34 3) Fowler, James U.S.C. 1 48.34 50-yd. FREESTYLE 1) Kirchner, Kris Texas 0 19 66 2) Leamy, Robin U.C.L.A. 0 19 68 Trial time of 0:19.36, American Record 3) Gaines, Ambrose Auburn 0 19 84 1 METER DIVING 1) Abieman, Randall Iowa 509 30 2) Stajkovic, Niki Indians 498 30 3) Mejer, Ron Arkansas 496.65 400-yd. MEDLEY RELAY...
When he was approached about becoming Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Samuel Riley Pierce Jr., 58, did not exactly jump at the chance. Joining the Administration would mean giving up his partnership at the prominent New York labor law firm of Battle, Fowler, Jaffin, Pierce & Kheel with a salary reported to be more than $100,000, vs. $69,630 at HUD. Says Pierce: "Frankly, I had to think about that." He discussed it with his wife Barbara Perm Wright, a physician with the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., and after a meeting with Reagan in California, finally decided to accept...