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...American League side, right-handed Pitcher Dave Stieb was the only All-Star from the Toronto Blue Jays, but he started the game and won it. Back when Toronto was a last-place team, just last year as a matter of fact, Stieb was good enough to pitch five shutouts and win 17 games. Now his record is 10-7 with an earned run average of 2.54, but it is misleading to consider him the Blue Jays' only star. Jim Clancy and Luis Leal have been formidable pitchers, and the able hitters include First Baseman Willie Upshaw, Outfielder Lloyd...
...clubhouse scuffle, Johnson wrecked Reliever Goose Gossage for 13 weeks in 1979. Mindful that the Yankees represent their primary opposition (along with the Baltimore Orioles and Detroit Tigers), the Blue Jays have loaded up with embarrassing symbols. Toronto is defraying Pitcher Doyle Alexander's guaranteed Yankee contract ($400,000 this year, $500,000 next year, $850,000 the year after that) by just $22,500 in the delicious hope that releasing Alexander will turn out to be a more expensive mistake for New York than signing...
...Olympic berths) hang on millimeters and hundredths of seconds, was perfectly in character. For by winning the 200, record or not, Lewis became the first American in nearly a century to gather three titles at a national outdoor championship.* The rare triple is roughly equivalent to a major league pitcher's chalking up a 1.50 ERA, winning 20 games and batting .350. Other sprinters have been superlative long jumpers, but Lewis is in a class by himself (he owns the indoor mark of 28 ft. 1 in.). At Indianapolis he made the second farthest outdoor long jump in history...
...students shouldn't include the Bow and Arrow (a.k.a. Father's) in their plans for six days of the seek, but rather make up for their weekly abstinence on the seventh While leaving the other days for the Cantabrigian locals, the Wednesday night happy hour deal of $2.25 per pitcher of Knickerbocker beer is too good to keep people away from this cavernous establishment. If you want to break new ground however, pitchers go for $3.95 other days...
...trophy, a pitcher homelier than Warren Spahn, was captured by Commodore John Cox Stevens' schooner America for blitzing 15 British boats in a race around the Isle of Wight promoting London's Great Exhibition of 1851. The N.Y.Y.C. insisted that the first challengers sail in solitude against a fleet of defenders and, in the interest of good seaworthy construction, travel to the site on their own bottoms. From 1870 until 1930, the race was set in Lower New York Bay, around Sandy Hook, where local knowledge was crucial. Though the visitors' hardships have gradually, very gradually, lessened...