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...throw out the first ball in Cincinnati last week, the first Chief Executive to do so since President Ford in 1976, but since he was still in the hospital, the opening day ritual was skipped altogether. Explained the Reds' p.a. announcer: "There can really be no appropriate relief pitcher for the President of the United States...
...last day of the season. Over that two-year span, the Expos won more games than any other team in the National League. Now, on the third try, Montreal is ready to challenge again, this time with that most coveted baseball contradiction: a team of young veterans. Only Ace Pitcher Steve Rogers remains from the 1973 roster, and most of the team (average age 27) has undergone its trial by fire in the big leagues, not down on the farm. Says First Baseman Warren Cromartie, the blithe spirit who plays team cheerleader: "Logic tells us that this is supposed...
...lineup has one big gap: Pitcher Don Sutton, the alltime Dodger leader in victories (230, against 175 losses), joined Houston as a free agent during the offseason. Says Garvey: "You hope that the whole staff can combine to take up the slack. And we have some good young pitchers coming along...
Indeed, the Dodgers may have the best young pitcher in baseball in Fernando Valenzuela, 20. He had already mastered the arcane art of throwing a screwball when the Dodgers called him up from the Mexican League to prop up a bullpen crumbling under injuries. Valenzuela pitched ten times, often with the game on the line, and did not give up a single earned run in 17.2 innings. Now a starter, he shut out the Astros on opening day last week, allowing them only five hits...
...sport star MIKE SMERCZYNSKI has a tip. "The best restaurant in Boston," says the Peabody native, "is Tecci's, right behind North Station." Smuzz, a fullback with the football team in the fall and a relief pitcher with ALEX NAHIGIAN's batsmen in the spring, lists a dish called Steak Mafia as the house specialty, and calls the prices "very reasonable...