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Assured of a top front-office job when he leaves the dugout, Rookie Manager Dallas Green pointedly informed his players that they had better get fired up because he could not be fired. Green delivered a full-throated locker-room harangue in early August that blistered paint and pride behind the locked clubhouse door. A number of Phillies muttered mutinously, but they won games in September for a change, finally clinching the division title with one game left in the season. After five tortuous playoff games, four of them extra-inning struggles of exquisite suspense, the Phillies extinguished the Houston...
...Dartmouth football locker room featured a quote from a former Big Green gridder--"Harvard is Harvard. We did it and we did it to them"--which undoubtedly held some profound significance...
...Richard. Fireballer Nolan Ryan faltered in Richard's slot, but Veteran Joe Niekro and a spot starter named Vern Ruhle, 29, rose to the occasion. The man who really sparked Houston's comeback was Joe Morgan, the team's feisty second baseman. Morgan delivered a stirring locker-room lecture to his demoralized teammates one losing Thursday. They went out and won ten games...
...mark in another age-the late 1940s, when Harry Truman was still in the White House. Bryant is that rare man who has changed with his times, the only one of his generation to coach as successfully in an era when football players use hair dryers in the locker room as he did when they wore crew cuts. "Thirty-five years makes a long time," he reflects. "A lot of good, a lot of bad, some things you did that were smart, some things you did that were plain stupid. Thirty-five years makes a lot of changes...
Bryant serves similar notice before each game. He leads his team in a street-clothes tour of the stadium before retiring to the locker room. Following their coach's example, the players peer at the sun, test the wind, check the footing on the field. The message to rivals is clear: Alabama is checking things out; Alabama will be ready...