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...Mike) is one of three pitchers with no major-league experience battling for a spot on the Red Sox' 25-man roster. By opening day, the present crowd of 21 hurlers will have dwindled to ten; and the rest will set up shop at the Sox AAA affiliate in Pawtucket, the AA team in Bristol, or points beyond...
...fastball may be the best in the organization. Crawford is big (6-ft., 5-in., 225 lbs.), young (22), and--although still raw--somewhat proven. Of all the kids, he would seem to have the inside track. Right behind Crawford may be Smithson. His 5-9 mark at pawtucket last summer is deceiving (2.91 ERA), and just about everyone mentions him in the top two or three when discussing prospects. His name came up in trade talks over the winter, and he is obviously a commodity the organization wants to hang...
Pitching in the Pacific Coast League, a hitters' league, may help Dorsey adjust to the realities of Fenway park ("I sure learned how to throw with short fences behind me"), but as a righthanded starter the competition is too tough. Look for him in Pawtucket...
Hartman is probably the most effective host of a morning show since Garroway. A New Englander-he was raised in Pawtucket, R.I.-he is married to a former TV producer and has three children. Although at 6 ft. 5 hi., he is five inches taller than Robert Young, he brings to Good Morning the same concerned but reassuring bedside manner of Marcus Welby, M.D. "We were looking for someone who could elicit information, but who is easy to take in the morning," says Good Morning's executive producer, George Merlis. "That's not a time for human sandpaper...
...there are new faces, too, the most important of which belongs to the new head coach Rita Harder. The first woman to coach the team (second-year varsity sports have lots of firsts), Harder played her college hockey at Brown and has since coached women's club hockey in Pawtucket and men's JV hockey at a private high school...