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...first inning of that game, Morris recalls, the Harvard pitcher threw 26 straight balls before retiring her first batter...
According to one Winter Haven source, the Sox have reaffirmed an offer of outfielder Joe Rudi and pitcher Bruce Hurst for Houston Astros catcher Luis Pujols. Another rumor has Hurst traveling to Pittsburgh for Pirate backstop Steve Nicosia, but a Pittsburgh executive said Nicosia "is probably headed to the Yankees or the Angels, with the Red Sox third on the list...
DIED. Paul ("Daffy") Dean, 67, pitcher who helped lead the St. Louis Cardinals to the world championship in 1934, winning 19 games in the regular season and two more against the Detroit Tigers In the World Series; of a heart attack; in Springdale, Ark. An Arkansas farm boy whose career was overshadowed by that of his Hall of Fame brother "Dizzy," he compiled a lifetime record of 50-34 with an earned-run average of 3.75. Frankie Frisch, who was the Cardinals' second baseman and manager in 1934, once said that Daffy threw the "damndest, heaviest sinker you ever...
...Sorrento, the shop man who tells us stories of "the good old days." You are David Rockefeller '36 and Caspar W. Weinberger '38 and Franklin D. Roosevelt '04 and John F. Kennedy '40 and David L. Halberstam '55 and Bill Lee (Red Sox pitcher, honorary) and David Riesman '31 and F.A.O. Schwartz...
...shocked if the camp phenom turns out to be a young pitcher. There is more untested talent throwing on Winter haven hills this spring than this organization has seen in a long while, and given the starting-over tenor of the squad this year, Houk may turn to a youngster for his tenth pitcher...