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Baseball's elder league opens its centennial season with hopes of bringing back World Series honors from the mighty nemesis of the American League, the Oakland As. The National League's western division will hold few surprises for enthusiasts of the grand hole game, but the Swami of Swat predicts weird happenings in the eastern race...
...OAKLAND--Even losing a 25-game winner can't topple the A's from Western supremacy. Ken Holtzman and Vida Blue comprise a potent duo, with Rollie Fingers anchoring the bullpen duties...
...YORK--Despite the massive propaganda barrage disseminating from the Yankees' front office, the pinstripes are not on the top of the A. L. East, but they're not far behind. The Yanks have been bolstered by the acquisitions of Jim "Catfish" Hunter from Oakland and Bobby Bonds from the baseball Giants...
...Oakland's power slugging of Reggie Jackson, Joe Rudi, Sal Bando, Billy Williams and Gene Tenace spreads fear in any sane pitcher, and the A's lose nothing in defense...
...when you have rice instead of ammo," said bearded A1 Wells, 52, of Miami's Airlift International, "but it makes you feel a little safer when you're on the ground." Ken Healy, a World War II Air Force pilot who now flies for World Airways of Oakland, Calif., told TIME Correspondent Peter Range: "The best time to go into Phnom-Penh is right after they've taken a few hits. We've figured out that if you haven't had another rocket for ten minutes, then you probably won't have any more...