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...Angeles, Atlanta--The Dodgers finished eighth last year; they don't figure to do as badly in 1968. Long suffering Don Drysdale will get pitching support from Claude Osteen and Tom Singer and it's possible that ex-Twin Mudcat Grant will help out both as a starter and a reliever. If another former Twin, Zoilo Versalles can fill the year-old short-stop gap, then the Dodgers may surprise...
...Harmon Killebrew, at .253, is 28 points below his 1966 average; Rightfielder Tony Oliva, at .272, is 46 points off his lifetime mark. Pitcher Dean Chance does indeed have a 16-8 record, but Jim Kaat, who won 25 games in 1966, is 9-12 this year, and Jim ("Mudcat") Grant, who won 21 in 1965, is 5-6, with a 4.91 earned-run average. To top it off, the Twins last week were playing on the road-where they have lost 29 out of 57 games this season. So what happened? The Twins won their eighth out of nine...
...horsehide hater: he hit .393 this spring, with eight homers and 17 RBls. Even so, the Minnesota Twins (3-1) would probably be a shoo-in, if it weren't for the way Owner Calvin Griffith holds onto his money. Imagine. Pitcher Jim ("Mudcat") Grant won 21 games last year, but he had to hold out for 17 days to get the kind of raise he wanted. As a result, he has looked just awful: 17 hits, ten runs in 14 innings. Then there is Tony Oliva, who has won the batting championship every year he has been...
...that modesty was too much for Jim ("Mudcat") Grant, the American League's No. 1 pitcher (season's record: 21-7). "I'm cool, sexy and suave," Grant announced, and he confided to newsmen that his broad shoulders were the result of eating possum as a kid. Star of the Twins' 8-2 first-game victory, Mudcat was knocked out of the box in the fourth game at Los Angeles. Two days later, with the Twins trailing 3-2 in the Series, he trudged to the mound again. Fortified by hot and cold showers...
...homer! It's a homer!" Mudcat yelled, dancing gleefully around the bases and broad jumping the last 10 ft. to the plate. Newsmen wanted to know what kind of pitch he had hit. Grant grinned. "It was the best pitch I ever saw. A curve that dropped a foot. And I hit it into the teeth of a gale...