Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...heart and soul of the Boston Red Sox, Carl Yastrzemski, strode into the batter's box against the Yankees' best relief pitcher, Rich Gossage. It was strength against strength, class against class; and the big New Yorker...
That, of course, and New York relief pitcher Rich Gossage's out-dueling of Boston captain Carl Yastrzemski. For when Gossage popped up Yastrzemski with two out in the ninth at Fenway yesterday afternoon, the Yankees had taken the onegame playoff for the American League East crown in dramatic fashion...
...clutch relief performance stranded the tying run--Burleson--on third, and it put a sudden, cold close to a pulse-stopping contest that everyone knew would be the last of the mad, emotional 1978 regular season...
Pressure-pumped Reggie Jackson supplied it, and why not? On Stanley's fourth pitch to Jackson--and the seventh and last of his brief relief stint--the Yankee slugger took a fastball out over the plate and sent it air-mail express to the centerfield bleachers--5-2 now, and climbing...
Traditional W.C.C. refugee assistance, though, is provided by the council's nonpartisan and respected relief commission. Funds are given through the antiracism program to make a political statement. In an explanatory document, the World Council attacked Rhodesia's so-called internal settlement between blacks and whites, arguing that it "leaves the illegal white minority regime in effective control and gives it a veto over real change for the next decade." As it happens, two of the four leaders of the Rhodesian regime are W.C.C.-related black clergymen, Bishop Abel Muzorewa and Ndabaningi Sithole, themselves recipients of past grants...