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Pitcher Mike Norris was the American League's first five-game winner and Matt Keough was just behind him at 4-0. Keough also led the league in strikeouts (24), followed by Mike Norris (23). Leftfielder Rickey Henderson, who broke Ty Cobb's American League record for stolen bases last year with 100, was off to a swift beginning with 16 steals and led the league in runs scored with 21. Rightfielder Tony Armas topped three lists: home runs, 7; RBIs, 22; total bases...
...charges to throw the "dry spitter," a sinker that behaves just like the genuine article. Whatever it is, the A's pitchers do not yield threatening clouts very often. When they do, the fleetest outfield in baseball (and one of the heaviest-hitting) goes to work. Leftfielder Rickey Henderson (.348, 19 runs scored and ten steals), Centerfielder Dwayne Murphy (.280, 20 RBIs) and Rightfielder Tony Armas (.353, 6 HRs, 20 RBIs) are so fast, says California Angels Special Scout Bill Rigney, that "they're almost like three extra infielders. If the pitchers keep it in the park, they...
Baseball's Branch Rickey once offered a serviceable definition: "Luck is the residue of design." To be sure, luck obeys the laws of a spooky kind of antiphysics, but it responds to risk and reflexes. To some extent, it is true that people make their own luck. Given a lucky chance at the story, Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward ran hard. Good luck must have room to occur. It can be encouraged, even though its exact mechanics remain perverse and mysterious. For its part, bad luck is so eventually inevitable that it is almost a sin to be surprised...
...outfield, with Leftfielder Rickey Henderson (a .303 hitter in 1980), Centerfielder Dwayne Murphy and Rightfielder Tony Armas, is considered the finest young group in the game. Oakland's youthful pitchers led the majors in complete games last year, and Norris (22 wins and nine losses) was runner-up in the Cy Young balloting. If the inventor of Billyball seems outwardly mellow, he has lost none of his fiery will to win. Says Martin: "Everybody tells you, 'Be a good loser.' If that's the case, why do they keep score?" -By B.J. Phillips