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Players can perform under somebody they like--Danny Murtaugh, Bill Virdon, and Gil Hodges are good examples. Maybe Zimmer was too friendly with the boys, but Houk has done it for years and he's had success. Anyway, as Sullivan says, he may not be the right man, but "you'll never know until...
Guard Cheryl Murtaugh sparked the Springfield surge, pouring in 10 first-half points, primarily on 20-foot jumpers from near the top of the key. When Gia Johnson and Tamar Atinc came out to shut off Murtaugh's outside game, the versatile guard penetrated for layups or passed off to forward Mary Regan who totalled 20 points overall and ten in the last nine minutes of the first half...
...Leading the charge has been Richie Zisk, not exactly a household name among ball fans. Until this year the Brooklyn-born rightfielder was best known as a dreamer. "He'd stand out in the field and think about a movie he'd seen," recalls Pirate Manager Danny Murtaugh. Going into last weekend, the former woolgathering champ was hitting .325, second best in the league. With the Phillies fading fast, the Pirates and Cardinals are headed for a showdown series next week...
...Pirates, back under the tutelage of Danny Murtaugh, are looking much more like that 1972 squad that took the league by storm. The line-up is similar, still studded with those same .300 plus hitters. But the similarities don't stop there--the Bucs have much of that same pitiful pitching staff back too. The Pirate management has been deluding fans with that "much improved hurling corps" nonsense for at least five months, since the acquisition of Jerry Reuss and Kenn Brett. Although Reuss can be considered an improvement over the curleradorned Dock Ellis, or the nose-diving Steve Blass...
Pittsburgh, another erratic team that has moved between last and first place this season, found its second wind after firing Manager Bill Virdon on Sept. 6 and replacing him with his predecessor, Danny Murtaugh. The club that will have survived the final, crucial weekend will go into the play-offs against Cincinnati with the kind of odds-defying momentum that swept the Mets to a surprise World Series victory...