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...Yankees benefited greatly from a surprisingly strong performance by Don Gullett, one of George Steinbrenner's more lucrative-check-cashers. Gullett went eight and one-third innings before yielding to ex-Red Sox (yes sir, we certainly remember) hurler, Sparky Lyle. Lyle, who won two of the three games the Yankees stole from the Royals, notched his third 1977 post-season...
...watched the drops, the Yankees dropped the Sox one-half game in the standings with their 97th win of the season, a 4-2 victory over the Indians in Cleveland. Mike Torrez got his 17th win of the year, with three innings of hitless relief help from Sparky Lyle, in his 69th appearance of the year...
...Baltimore Orioles (93-63), who dropped their game with Cleveland, 9-4. But it was the Yankees (96-59) who emerged as the big winners yesterday, sweeping the Blue Jays, 15-0 and 2-0, behind the shutout pitching of Ron Guidry, Ed. "Senor Stopper" Figueroa and Sparky Lyle...
...suffering their worst water shortage in nearly a quarter of a century. With most of the Far West and large stretches of the Midwest also in the throes of a prolonged dry spell (see map), the acting director of the Department of Agriculture's crop weather reporting service, Lyle Benny, cites 1977 as the worst drought year overall for the U.S. since the 1950s...
...another physician, Dr. Allan Ryan, editor of The Physician and Sportsmedicine, agrees that black athletes often have a greater leg-to-trunk-length ratio than whites, which gives them an advantage in activities requiring explosive force, such as sprinting and jumping. Dr. Lyle Micheli, director of the sport-medicine division of Children's Hospital, has made similar observations. In examining black children, he has found that they have relatively small muscle mass in their calves, but highly muscled thighs. Says he: "The combination of the two makes for very efficient running. But we don't know whether...