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...remember how Gowdy had a fit over rookie phenom Fred Lynn on the Monday nightbroadcast from Detroit on June 16. That was the night he broke his hitting streak, but it turned out to merely be a rest as he belted three homers and missed another by a foot and racked up ten RBIs the next night. Boston fans already knew how good Lynn was, but Gowdy dutifully informed the rest of the world...
Gerry Moshell and his fall pickup orchestra, the Kirkland Concertgebouw, will deliver the well-loved Grieg piano concerto and Mendelssohn violin concerto Saturday night. Starring will be the dynamic violin-piano duo of Lynn Chang and Richard Kogan, who will also perform solo works of Chopin and Tartini. At 8, with a repeat performance at 11; Kirkland...
Then in the seventh, Petrocelli, leading off, unloaded his home run, giving the Red Sox a two-run cushion. Boston added a run in the eighth on Fred Lynn's RBI single. Reliever Dick Drago, the third Boston pitcher, protected that edge the rest...
Drago had come on in the seventh inning with a man on first and none out. He struck out pinch-hitter Billy Williams and then escaped the jam when Tommy Harper, running on a hit-and-run play, was doubled off first base as Bill North lined to Lynn in center field...
...Lynn is compared to DiMaggio and Williams; Rice to Henry Aaron if anybody, partly because Willie Mays wouldn't do (Rice has no connotations, yet, as a fielder), mostly because whites are always compared to whites and blacks to blacks. There really are similarities between Lynn and DiMaggio--you can feel it--but Rice and Aaron have only one similarity, and one which has little to do with baseball...