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They may not be Koufax and Drysdale, but Harvard hurlers Don Driscoll and Mark Linehan limited a tame Columbia Lion squad to one run and six hits all day Saturday, as the Crimson swept a doubleheader...
...Without me you're a nothing," he once told Ali. "Nobody would know your name...Where would you be...without me doing your fights...? Yes, I made you." Trying to interview Sandy Koufax on short notice, he says, "Sandy, you were just a damned snit from Brooklyn sitting in the corner of the dugout surrounded by the great ones when I first met you. You owe me this...
Nolan Ryan of the California Angels broke the strikeout record of another California pitcher (Sandy Koufax; remember him sports fans?) and picked up his 21st victory Thursday night when he fanned 16 Twins in Minnesota...
...speed and pitching to make up for their gradual loss of gun power. A typical Dodger "big inning" then consisted of Maury Wills beating out an infield hit, stealing second, advancing to third on a ground out and finally scoring on a sacrifice fly. With fireballers like Sandy Koufax and Don Drysdale holding forth on the mound, that one run was often enough...
...novelists. In The Summer Game, Roger Angell celebrates a field that never was: the Interior Stadium. "Baseball in the mind . . . is a game of recollections, recapturing and visions . . . anyone can play this private game, extending it to extraordinary varieties and possibilities in his mind. Ruth bats against Sandy Koufax or Sam McDowell . . . Hubbell pitches to Ted Williams. Baseball, I must conclude, is intensely remembered because only baseball is so intensely watched...