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Left Field--29 HR's/121RBI's/.306 average for Foster, and 20/95/.304 for "Bull" Luzinski. On the basis of his glove, a vote for Foster. Both are great, though...
...Reynolds would at last catch fire. And then when those young phenoms failed us, I would scurry to the back pages of The Sporting News and read about how the Phillies' farm clubs were doing in Eugene and Reading. There was plenty of scuttlebutt before games: "How about that Luzinski tearing up the Double A? Schmidt looks like a good prospect, hitting .300 for Pulaski. Maybe they'll make the difference next year...
...particular grips with the Reds have nothing to do with mundane arguments over their lack of right-handed power-hitting. It doesn't bother me that Joe Morgan should and will become "The Sporting News" MVP, even though Greg Luzinski may be more deserving. I don't care if the Reds' management has a habit of ruining young pitchers' arms--even if they take time out to reincarnate them a la Gary Nolan...
...Luzinski prefers to direct his aggression at a baseball. "I enjoy crushing it and hitting it out of the yard," he says. His 26th home run this season, over the center-field fence of Busch Stadium in St. Louis, was hit so hard that Fellow Slugger Allen could remember only one other with which to compare it. Says Allen: "My first year in the Eastern League there was a guy who could shoot a ball high from a cannon, jump into a Jeep, drive to center field, jump out and catch the ball. One night someone asked...
...steal a base every series if I got the green light," he says. He rarely gets it because Manager Danny Ozark prefers not to risk injury to the man who rings up so many of his team's runs. With Cash and Bowa preceding him to the plate, Luzinski has ample opportunity to drive in runs. "We have cruisers and PT boats," says Catcher Bob Boone of the Phillies' attack. "But Greg is the battleship and he gives our navy respect...