Word: haase
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In their first varsity games, freshmen Heather Sullivan and Polly Butler lay waste to their older opponents. Although sickness prevented Butler from touching a court for two weeks, her re-entry to Hemenway Gym was smooth. At fourth seed, she beat junior Pam Haas, 15-7, 15-8, 15-11...
In 1980, when the Haas family of San Francisco bought the franchise from Charles O. Finley, the A's were ailing. Finley had goaded the team to three consecutive world championships in 1972-74, but by 1979 the A's were attracting fewer than 4,000 visitors a game. In...
Walter Haas had plenty to spend; he is an heir to the Levi Strauss jeans fortune. He also had a resilient young pitching staff and a local rabbit named Rickey Henderson. To nurture the team to respectability, though, he needed a quick fix and a long view. He already had...