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...Name the Graig Nettles-to-New York trade...
Frost, after a fallout shelter type of first period, won the Graig Nettles Field Alike Award for his inspired play over the last 40 minutes, in which he stopped at least 25 Crimson shots...
Still, the game's best defensive play was a portent of heroics to come and a change in the fortunes of the Series. Yankee Third Baseman Graig Nettles, acquired in a trade with Cleveland before the 1973 season, made a spectacular diving catch of a line drive. In the next game, back in Yankee Stadium, Nettles showed he had the millisecond reflexes and cannon arm to be ranked with Brooks Robinson at third. When a weary-armed Ron Guidry turned shaky on the mound, Nettles stifled Dodger rally after rally. Any one of his four sprawling, crawling, flying, levitating...
First the Yankees used Graig Netttles's glovse to short circuit Los Angeles in Game 3. The came a whacky basepath controvesrsy taht supplied a key run adn led New York to victory in Game 4. Finally, in Sunday's fifth contest, the roof fell in on the Dodgers as New York sprayed 18 hilts around Yankee Stadium and Thurman Munson drove in five runs in a 12-2 rount...
Guidry, aided by the brilliant fielding of Yankee third baseman Graig Nettles, steered his New York teammates to a 5-1 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers and his 27th win of the year...