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San Francisco's Franks refused to panic. "We've fallen back before," he said, "and we've always regrouped. This is the last time we're falling back. That's a promise. We will retrench and dig in and start to go again." Whereupon the...
The blue-and-white bus screeched to a stop outside Houston's Astrodome, with its cargo of the hottest - and angriest - team in sport. "C'mon, dammit!" yelled Manager Herman Franks. "Go get 'em! Sic 'em! Sic 'em!" The San Francisco Giants leaped to their...
One Rung Down. Nobody had ever accused Franks, 50, of being that be fore. A roly-poly ex-catcher, he could look back over half a dozen big-league seasons and a lifetime batting average of a minuscule .199. When he coached the Giants in 1959 and 1960, sportswriters gleefully...
Trouble had been brewing for days, as the Giants and Dodgers squared off in baseball's bitterest rivalry. Twice in two innings, batters practically fell across the plate in attempts to tick the catcher's mitt with their bats and get to first base on interference. The Dodgers...
If the Reds can't do it, an obvious choice is the San Francisco Giants, who finished three games back last year despite collapses by Jack Sanford, and Willie McCovey. The Giants have Willie Mays, who led the league in home runs with 47; Orlando Cepeda, who hit .200 again...