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...enraged to find his players with the owner. Steinbrenner calmed the group down, and the four men argued until 6 in the morning. Several lineup changes were agreed to: Jackson henceforth would bat cleanup, certain pitchers would rotate every fourth day, Piniella would become the daily designated hitter. One other change: the no-pay salary clause in Martin's contract would be dropped...
...ball in the last two and a half months, anything that the team did was pure gravy. They won the pennant despite all the verbal rattail-flicking that went on off the field, despite injuries to their pitching staff that clogged them throughout, despite having a $100,000 fungo hitter in Ken Holtzman, despite Bucky Dent's mediocrity, despite George Steinbrenner's obtrusive presence...
Rollerball. This was made in the Nixon Era, and it shows. The word to describe this movie is hydrophobia; as Lyman Bostock, the second-leading hitter in the American League said, this film says everything there is to say about violence in American sports. James Caan is macho-competent, as usual, and the sets are something--the crowd scenes for this amalgamation of roller derby and first degree assault were filmed in the Olympic Stadium in Munich. In a way, it's a shame--in the hands of a William Friedkin, this could have been a 90-minute reminder that...
...early 1-0 Knasas City lead was permanently dispatched in the home half of the fifth inning, when designated hitter Cliff Johnson tatooed a two-run homer over the center field wall to put the Yanks in the lead to stay...
Also surging Baltimore Orioles did manage to gain ground, though, downing the Toronto Blue Jays to close within 1 1/2 games of first. Oriole Lee May crunched a three-run homer and Bird pitcher Mike Flanagan hurled a six-hitter as Baltimore picked up a 7-1 victory, their 15th win in the last 19 games...