Word: home-run
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...team was awarded an amateur draft choice from his new club. The owners want to be able to pick a man from the raiding team's major league roster. In the players' view, such an arrangement would stifle the free-agent market that has made millionaires of home-run hitters and fastball pitchers...
...Schmidt enjoyed the opposite fate. In the thrill-an-inning playoffs against Houston, he had been the goat, hitting .208 (five hits in 24 at-bats) and striking out twice with the bases loaded in the final game. The Major League home-run leader during the regular sea son with 48, he regained his touch during the World Series, hitting .381, bashing two homers and driving in the winning run in two of the Phillies' four victories. That resurrection led Schmidt to mystical ruminations: ";It was destined for us to win this thing. We overcame too many obstacles, came...
...will continue to draw his $222,600 salary through July 1. At that time he will receive $100,000 in severance pay, then $4,833 a month for the rest of his life. Exclaimed angry Stockholder Herbert C. Hannemann: "He's not bunting. He's a home-run hitter...
With Hobson, Burleson and Lynn healthy, the Red Sox are twice as potent. And the Red Sox have recently acquired what they have needed for a year--a new first baseman. Though George Scott recalls memories of golden gloves and home-run rallies, it was apparent last March that Scott's best years had come and gone. He came to spring training in 1978 grossly overweight, and though he lost some pounds this winter, he never got his needle back on true north...
...Yankees, accustomed to pyrotechnics themselves, had to play pecking baseball, although Jackson stretched his World Series home-run string to four straight games. His towering blast cleared the left-field fence, the Yankee bullpen, and nearly carried over the wall to the parking lot beyond-460 ft. to the last line of defense in Chavez Ravine. It was not enough. With Lopes driving in five runs, the Dodgers took the opener...