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...King of Comedy Rupert not only wants to be Jerry Langford's pal, he wants the nation's leading talk-show host to give him his big break, let him do on the air the stand-up routine he has been polishing these many months in his Hoboken basement. To these ends he stalks Jerry not as an assassin, but as a nudge and a nerd. The two characters are wonderfully contrasted. Robert De Niro's Rupert has a cheerfully deranged imperviousness to traditional class distinctions and psychological boundary lines that makes you laugh even...
...suspects, who were released on $20,000 bail, are Leonard D. Cameron, aged 21, Paul A. Langford, aged 21, William P. Langford, aged 23, and Darrock B. MacKintosh, aged 23, a former Babson student...
...Oakland pitching staff is baseball's best. The five starters (Norris, Langford, Keough, Steve McCatty, Brian Kingman) turned in 17 complete games in 21 starts-so many that the team's relievers worked a total of only 11% innings. One forlorn reliever, Bob Owchinko, did not throw a single pitch that counted. The A's team earned-run average was a minuscule 1.89. Nobody scored more than four runs a game against them (their three losses were by scores of 3-2, 3-2 and 3-1) and their opponents' batting average...
...their foreheads and the umpires don't have the guts to do anything about it." One baseball insider asserts that Kuehl's charge is only half true. "Matt Keough keeps it in his glove. Mike Norris keeps it in his crotch. Steve McCatty and Rick Langford are the ones who keep it on their foreheads. It's grease, a salve. They all load the ball up and it makes them good. It helped turn them around in one year." Something turned Oakland's pitchers around. Keough went from 2-17 in 1979 to 16-13 , last...
...pitchers angrily deny any such scurrilous allegations. Charges Norris: "I wouldn't throw that pitch. I'd get kicked out of the game." McCatty: "They've never proven it and they never will." Keough: "How do they know?" Langford: "Accusations don't bother me. I don't throw one." The speculation, true or not, is just the kind of edge that Martin likes to exploit. Says he: "I love it. I hope they keep thinking we do it, because it screws them up, ruins their concentration." This year Martin introduced another ploy: white long-sleeved...