Word: lockers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Series victory but scarcely aglow with brotherly love. Catcher-Captain Thurman Munson, the man who hated Reggie Jackson's top-catting, wanted to be traded to Cleveland, a move that only an Akron, Ohio, native could cherish. Starting Pitcher Ed Figueroa, snubbed in the Series rotation, emptied his locker and departed before the champagne was uncorked. Amidst the celebration, Owner George Steinbrenner barely managed to conceal the pink slip he had prepared for Manager Billy Martin. Series Pitching Hero Mike Torrez promptly became the first free agent to leave New York, departing for the Boston Red Sox, the Yankees...
Aside from the Lyle contretemps, this season's assembling of the cast in Fort Lauderdale has proceeded, by recent Yankee standards, like a love-in. For an entire week one and all behaved as though Norman Vincent Peale were in the locker room. Jackson reported to camp early in his silver and blue Rolls-Royce Corniche and shook hands all around with egalitarian humility. Thurman Munson managed not to insult anyone through the simple expedient of keeping his mouth shut. "I'm not talking today," he said, day after day. Expensive Benchwarmer Ken Holtzman arrived sans his cavalryman...
...Bulldogs, behind the strong outside shooting of junior captain Jim Yent, who finished the night with a season-high 22 points, continued to take advantage of the sluggish Harvard defense to take a 39-26 edge into the locker room at halftime...
...YORK--"We're a year away," Columbia basketball coach Tom Penders said, standing in the corridor outside the visiting team's locker room in the IAB last Saturday night before his team played Harvard. After watching the Lions dissect the Crimson's defense with 17-24 shooting in the first half, Penders may have wondered whether he was a year off in his calculations...
Suddenly, Miller started going out of control, presenting an offensive display that had the fans howling. Harvard played scrappy defense, but Miller was dropping in tip-ins, set shots, reverse layups and double-pump runners to send B.U. into the locker room ahead, 30-20, at the half...