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West's performance is no less a tribute to medical science. Despite 1) a broken hand, 2) a broken nose, 3) another broken nose, and 4) a pulled groin muscle he averaged 26.3 points a game during the regular season, then sank a phenomenal 61% of his floor shots in the playoff games against San Francisco...
...Rightfielder Tony Oliva, obviously recovered from an off-season operation for bone chips in his right knee, can be expected to hit .300 for the season and the No. 7 man in the batting order, Centerfielder Ted Uhlaender is currently batting .333. Pitching? Fireballer Dean Chance has won two games as has Jim Merritt. Jim Perry and Dave Boswell both have complete-game victories, and the Twins' bullpen crew is languishing from lack of work...
...season, this years Twins are a cocky, close-knit crew of opportunists who score runs in bunches (seven in one inning against Washington last week), have developed speed and savvy to complement their power at the plate. Last year the Twins stole only 55 bases in 164 games; this year, under the tutelage of Coach George Case, who pilfered 61 himself the Washington Senators in 1943 they have already stolen eight in eight games. Acquired in an off-season trade with the National League's Los Angeles Dodgers, Catcher John Roseboro one of the game's shrewdest tacticians...
Despite their hot streak, the Twins at week's end still trailed the Detroit Tigers by one game. So they are not spending any World Series money yet But for the moment anyway, says Catcher Roseboro, "we're having fun out there...
...American middle class. Tarbox is a fun place too. Almost any Sunday, one can find a bunch of the fellows tossing around a basketball in somebody's driveway, while the women chat and watch and the children scramble and squabble. There's likely to be a spirited game of tennis at John and Bernadette Ong's place, followed by a few tall, cold vodka-and-tonics perhaps at Matt and Terry Gallagher's. The women can be depended upon to keep the co-op nursery school running smoothly. And thank heavens for Irene Saltz, without whose...