Word: jacksons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Dempsey and Dauer flied out but McGregor worked Robinson for a walk. Tanner had seen enough and called to the bullpen for veteran lefty Grant Jackson, who finished off the inning without allowing any damage to the Bucs' precarious lead...
...only other serious threat from the Orioles came in the bottom of the eighth when Lee May, pinchhitting for McGregor, drew a walk. The tiring Jackson then gave away another base on balls to Al Bumbry. Tanner removed Jackson and brought in Kent Tekulve...
...meantime Jackson had arrived in Damascus, only to be stricken with gastroenteritis, an inflammation of the lining of the stomach and intestines. He was forced to interrupt a session with Assad the next day in order to check into a hospital for a "stomach wash." The Syrian leader greeted Jackson warmly but firmly rejected Sadat's overture...
Shuttling back to Beirut for a third huddle with Arafat, Jackson suffered a relapse and wound up in the American University of Beirut Hospital. Later in the evening Yasser Arafat and his aides turned up for a twelve-minute bedside chat, making it clear that the P.L.O.'s military action against Israel would continue...
...Jackson, however, seemed undaunted...