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...baseball's free agents--led by two Yankees hurlers, Catfish Hunter, the son of a North Carolina sharecropper, and Andy Messersmith--were pulling down astronomical salaries. At the center of the maelstrom, stirring it for all he was worth, was manager Billy Martin, a man who once took pitcher Goose Gossage aside--before a spring-training game in which he would face a black player--and told him, "I want you to drill the little n_____ in the head." Meanwhile the team's slugger was Reggie Jackson, an emerging black superstar who the previous year had hit four home runs...
...Ohlendorf’s a good pitcher who’s had a lot of people talking,” Walsh said. “We did a good job putting pressure...
Farkes slung the ball to sophomore pitcher Mike Morgalis—who was rushing to cover first—just before Szymanski reached...
Instead, Walsh crossed his fingers and sent out Frank Herrmann—a freshman outfielder with only two career hits in 15 at-bats—to face the league’s top pitcher. Herrmann worked the count to 1-1 before going down swinging as Pauly’s 10th strikeout victim of the afternoon...
...Facing a pitcher with a 5-1 record and a 0.92 ERA, Walsh decided there was only one good strategy?...