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...blond gateway man is starting to work into shape and should get an idea how far he has to go this Friday when he will take infield and batting practice before the Tigers' game with the Red Sox. After exams he will report back to the Islanders, who have moved to Lakeland, Florida, but he hopes that will only be a way station before he moves...
...Brien escaped a bases-loaded threat in the first-inning when Harvard-'s Dan Hootstein was caught off second base on Jeff Hall's soft infield liner...
Sophomore John Emery got an infield single pinch hitting for Peters in the fifth inning and moved to second on a sacrifice by Phil Smith. Bill Cobb's popup fell for an error between the third baseman and the catcher, putting two men in scoring position on Hootstein's double over third...
...always, spring training wound up with a flurry of activity. To cement their porous infield, the New York Yan kees purchased Dodger John Kennedy, who made only eight errors in 125 games last year; Kennedy committed two booboos in his first game for the Yanks. The Baltimore Orioles shipped Pitcher Steve Barber, a 20-game winner in 1963, back to the minors; the New York Mets astonished practically everybody by farming out veteran Centerfielder Johnny Lewis, their No. 1 hitter (at .387) during the Grapefruit League season, replacing him with Rookie Don Bosch-who batted .147 this spring...
Stottlemyre only allowed two balls out of the infield -- a fly-out to right in the fifth and Valentine's ground ball single in the ninth. The only hit before the final inning was Cap Peterson's infield single in the second...