Word: gaylord
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Everyone knows that Jim and Gaylord Perry have won over 500 games between them, by far the most for any part of brothers. For five points, can you name the brothers who have the second highest total' For five more, identify the family which had live sons play in the big leagues...
...baseball is a delicate matter. Pitchers, especially, grip the edges of their careers like the seams of the baseball, and dig in their fingernails. For example Gaylord Perry, 44, of Seattle, whose next victory will be his 308th, bad news for Charles ("Old Hoss") Radbourn, about to be bumped to 13th after 91 years. Jim Kaat, 44, of the St. Louis Cardinals bullpen, is approaching his 25th big-league campaign, dabbling with a new pitch, trying his hand as a submariner. The most enchanting apparition of the spring is Masanori ("Mashi") Murakami, a Japanese lefthander who mystically reappeared with...
...Phillies, making him the highest-paid pitcher in baseball ($1.15 million). After an off-year once, Carlton volunteered to renegotiate a contract downward and was accommodated, so this was a square deal. He needs 75 strikeouts to break Walter Johnson's record of 3,508, but then Gaylord Perry requires just 57 and Houston's Nolan Ryan merely...
When former Senator Gaylord Nelson (D-Wis.), now president of the Wilderness Society, heard of Watt's remarks, he said: "The secretary has gone bonkers. It's time the white-coat people took him away." Such action may yet prove justified. But for now, we'd be satisfied if the White House people would come for Watt's resignation...
...secretary, has gone bonkers said former Sen Gaylord Nelson (D-Wis.) and now chairman of the Wilderness Society "It's time the white coat people took him away...