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...year-old Greenidge is no stranger to local sports. He was a star pitcher for Cambridge High School and was recruited by both the Boston Red Sox and the New York Yankees. "I considered these offers seriously," he says. "But I was a curve ball pitcher, and I took a step back and said to myself that I just didn't have the fast ball needed in the big leagues...
Wicker Park Elementary School. The money has been used to set up highly popular courses in cooking, darkroom techniques and computer science. The Los Angeles Dodgers have adopted the Solano Avenue Elementary School near the stadium, sending in such stars as Second Baseman Steve Sax and Pitcher Fernando Valenzuela to talk about developing good habits. Says Dodger Coach Mark Cresse: "You know how kids are. Their parents can tell them 100 times that they should study, and it goes in one ear and out the other. If a Dodger tells them, believe me, they listen...
...bases in Game 4. Thomas started to scowl but burst out grinning. In fact there was almost no ugliness to this show at all, except for a profane few minutes in the final game when hefty Home Plate Umpire Lee Weyer had to dance the Cardinals' sore-shinned pitcher Joaquin Andujar away from Brewer Second Baseman Jim Gantner, who had said something about a hot dog. During the playoffs, the Cardinals' rookie centerfielder, Willie McGee, was slurred on television as resembling the movie creature E.T. But McGee, who hit two home runs in one World Series game...
...Cardinals' Jim Kaat made it 24 campaigns this year, the only major league pitcher ever to make it that far. Atlanta's gray knuckleballer, Phil Niekro, was gypped out of 4⅓ shutout innings last Wednesday night when the National League playoffs were stalled by the first of two rain-outs in St. Louis. With no Pete Rose or Carl Yastrzemski left around, and Pittsburgh's Willie Stargell gone forever, Niekro is the survivor of the year. Undaunted by the rain, he tried to talk Manager Torre into restarting him without rest Thursday night, and renewed...
...resist a 43-year-old pitcher who wants to pitch every day? "I don't want rest," said Niekro. "I want the baseball." Niekro goes back to the Milwaukee Braves (1965) and had hoped to go back to Milwaukee. "Lots of Polacks, lots of bars," he said. "My kind of town...