Word: hitter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ANGELES--New York Yankees Manager Bob Lemon named Ed Figueroa, 20-9, as his starting pitcher and said Reggie Jackson would be the designated hitter for Turesday's first game of the best of seven 1978 World Series against the Los Angeles Dodgers...
...lost only 24. The field is richly carpeted with Tartan Turf. On this artificial greensward, ground balls that would be easy outs elsewhere rocket past chagrined infielders. The Royals play their rug like so many home-town pool sharks fleecing visiting marks from the big city. Says Designated Hitter Hal McRae: "In this park, we don't drop a big bomb on people, we just run them all over the place...
...Royals lead the league in doubles, triples and stolen bases and are also accomplished practitioners of the ancient and oft neglected art of the hit and run. They had better be. Manager Whitey Herzog last week contemplated a starting lineup without a full-time .300 hitter and with no one who had driven in 100 runs. He confessed...
Yesterday Fitzgibbons shot a 78, Tom Edwards fired a 77 and Glenn Alexander, the longest hitter on the team, carded a five-over-par 75, which qualified him for the ECAC tourney on an individual basis...
Reggie Smith's rocket throw from right which held Phillie leadoff hitter Mike Schmidt to a single on a blast off the wall in the first, and Garry Maddox's baserunning blunder in the seventh guaranteed the shutout...