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Seventh-place finisher Fernando Branz of Boston College, and Dartmouth's Keith Hampton, who took tenth, were the other individual qualifiers. Hampton will be the only Ivy Leaguer competing in the national championships...
...Terry Puhl looped a single to right and took second on a walk. Left fielder Tony Scott lifted a Texas leaguer to right center. Davey Lopes dashed back for it while Kenny Landreaux hurried in from center field. Neither one could reach the ball in time, and Puhl scored easily from second...
When the ballclub signed the Brigham Young sophomore, it was prepared to invest X dollars and X years in the hope that he would become a major leaguer somewhere down the road. Similar gambles are made on dozens of similar prospects every year...
...picks in the annual draft of amateur players. Even with these limitations, free-agent bidding quickly soared into the stratosphere, and owners found themselves throwing millions at sore-armed pitchers and journeyman outfielders. The owners' solution: force the big spenders to give up a working big leaguer, not an untried amateur, whenever they signed a free agent...
...five points, who is the only active major leaguer to play in the NBA? For another five, what pitching ace from the 1960s played for the Harlem Globetrotters...