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...exploded for six runs in the first inning off Oakland pitcher Bob Rodriguez. Rodriguez retired to the mercy of the shower room while his teammates suffered through eight more innings and eight more runs...
...groan rose from the heartbroken Oakland crowd. But it was a groan almost equally mixed with cheers. If their favorites had to go down, how better than at the hands of Bobby Hull? For the sight of Robert Marvin Hull, 29, leaning into a hockey puck is one of the true spectacles of sport-like watching Mickey Mantle clear the roof, or Wilt Chamberlain flick in a basket, or Bart Starr throw that beautiful bomb. It is the thing that hockey fans go to see-whether in Chicago, Montreal or Oakland. And it is the thing that makes Bobby Hull...
...second period at Oakland last week, Bobby drew an awed gasp from the crowd with a blast that hit a defender's stick-and ricocheted all the way up to the 34th row of the stands. Not every opponent who crosses the path of a Hull missile gets off so lightly. Montreal Goalie Lome ("Gump") Worsley caught one in the face three years ago, firmly believes that the only reason he was not killed was that he was hit by the flat side rather than the edge of the puck. Last October, Minnesota Goal Tender Cesare Maniago was knocked...
...insisted, was too big, financially shaky (think of all those extra travel bills), badly unbalanced in the quality of play. Stocked with castoffs, minor leaguers and even non-Canadians (four Americans, one Scot, one Pole), the new West Division teams in St. Louis, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Minnesota, Los Angeles and Oakland could hardly be expected to furnish much competition for the established East Division clubs. And when they were slaughtered by scores of say 15-0, who would come out to see them play? Auditoriums would empty, franchises would fold, and the N.H.L. would be the laughingstock of U.S. pro sports...
...brand-new, 14,400-seat auditorium, dress in a carpeted locker room that is equipped with a sauna bath and pool table. The Los Angeles Kings are drawing 7,600 paving customers per game, and the only expansion club that is experiencing any real financial woe is the Oakland Seals. The Seals discovered the cure for that last week, when those 12,025 fans turned out to welcome Bobby Hull to town. "I wish," sighed General Manager Frank Selke Jr., "that we had him all the time...