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39TH MAJOR LEAGUE ALL-STAR BASEBALL GAME (NBC, 8-11 p.m.). Sandy Koufax and Pee Wee Reese analyze the action at the Houston Astrodome...
...Sandy Koufax, the great Los Angeles Dodger pitcher, took "bute" to ease the ache in his arthritic throwing arm; Whitey Ford, the New York Yankee ace, swallowed six Butazolidin tablets before games that he pitched...
...appeared finished after a horrendous accident in 1965 that tore off the top eighth of his left kneecap, followed by surgery for removal of calcium deposits. All last summer, under the direction of Dr. Robert Kerlan, the Los Angeles orthopedic surgeon who won fame for treating Dodger Hurler Sandy Koufax's arthritic pitching arm, he did special calisthenics to strengthen his joints-and snapped back this season to average 26 points a game, win a berth on the N.B.A. All-Star team...
Paul Del Rossi was not an over-powering pitcher. He had a good, tailing fastball, but he was not Koufax-fast. He said his curveball was only fair. It did not bend around trees or drop off tables...
Talk about quotas irks admissions staffers because they don't like to think of the admissions process as a mechanical one. And despite the statistical consistency of the class from year to year, admissions staffers work long and hard precisely because they refuse to rely on the numbers. Sandy Koufax's earned-run average always hovered around 2.0, but he sweated for every strikeout