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Park has given junior hurler Mike O'Malley the nod for today's game. Ric LaCivita will play second base, giving Larry Barbiaux a rest...
Right fielder Dave St. Pierre then struck out and all would have been rosy for Navy hurler Randy Young, except catcher Joe Zeni dropped the ball on the third strike and then threw wild to first, allowing Stoeckel to cross the plate with the first...
...Stottlemyre went the distance and pitched the Bronx Bombers to a 6-2 win over the Boston Red Sox at Yankee Stadium yesterday. New York got all of its runs in the fourth inning as hurler John Curtis was a victim of his own wildness and Bosox errors. It was the first time the Yankees have beaten the Red Sox in five tries this season...
Range was a Little League catcher back in Athens, Ga. He kept dropping pitches because the star hurler threw only blazing fastballs. Athens fans still call that pitcher Francis Tarkenton. Both youngsters were to switch to football, but Range's career stopped in high school. He was a second-string quarterback whom the coach sent in during one game out of a misguided sense of charity. The first pass was intercepted and the unintended receiver easily scored. Range immediately turned to journalism...
...batter in the box, every runner on base, every pitch in his battery mate's repertoire. It is his brains and his calm, confident manner that elevate him to a special plateau above the merely superior receivers. He knows better than any of them how to keep his hurlers mixing their pitches, and will not hesitate to cajole or even bully a reluctant hurler into following his commands. Once Maloney shook Bench off repeatedly on Johnny's call for a curve; he wanted to throw his patented fastball. Bench persisted, and Maloney finally came in with a roundhouse...