Word: maddoxisms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Elliot Maddox singled home Sandy Alomar with the winning and only run in the bottom of the tenth inning as the New York Yankees squeezed by the Red Sox in Shea Stadium last night...
Yankee designated hitter Roy White then hit a high chopper between third base and the pitcher's mound. By the time the ball came down, however, White was safe at first and Alomar was standing on third. Centerfielder Maddox followed and hit the very first pitch on the ground through the right side for a base...
...Yankees made similar advances in the fourth against Cleveland hurler Bruce Ellingson, 1-1. Elliott Maddox walked with none out, went to second on a Murcer single, then to third on a long foul pop by Lou Piniella. Thurman Munson sacrificed him home to tie the game...
Your reviewer tried putting a feather in my back by writing that while Paar put on Zsa Zsa Gabor and Buddy Hackett, Cavett presented Katharine Hepburn, Laurence Olivier, Orson Welles and Lester Maddox. Your research and/or bias could just as honestly have stated that while Cavett presented Tiny Tun, George Jessel and Totie Fields, Paar put on John and Robert Kennedy, Fidel Castro, Dr. Albert Schweitzer...
...been winning. The surprising Yankees, who have not won a pennant in ten years, sport no Mantles or DiMaggios this year. Some frantic trading eventually paid off, though, and the erratic Bombers began to wring winning performances out of an assortment of new arrivals and old journeymen. Outfielders Elliott Maddox and Lou Piniella have been hitting over .300. Rudy May, a recent acquisition, has helped an ailing pitching staff, backing up young Doc Medich...