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...ANGELES--The party's over in Chavez Ravine (I think). The Dodgers are very good, but not great. The loss of Tommy John, Lee Lacy and Billy North will hurt more than most people think. And overrated shortstop Bill Russell costs this team a lot of games...
...adoring fans--the current undergraduate population is the youngest to have munched at the feedbag of homespun lessons about life and laughter from Ed's wry rerun commentary. Who can forget Mr. Ed driving a milk truck down the streets of suburbia? Will the image of Mr. Ed at shortstop ever fade? And will the very name "Wilbur" ever be the same? For Ed's rolling cadences turned that pedestrian monicker into a symbol for everyman, a stable influence in a changing world...
...Shortstop Bucky Dent walked on four straight pitches, and a Mickey Rivers single put men on first and second. Roy White then lashed a single into right scoring Dent, and Thurman Munson blooped a single to center tallying the first pair of his five RBIs for the night...
...Yankees went through their death throes in the eighth. Dodger shortstop Bill Russell's second error of the night set up two runs, as he threw a sure double play ball into the dugout...
...team. They get along together, play well together, hang around together. In an era of temper tantrums, when the fights in the dressing room are often more interesting than the action on the field, the most disruptive event that occurred on the Royals all year long was Shortstop Patek's missing part of a West Coast road trip. He claimed he was hurt, but a few players suggested he was a hypochondriac. Big deal. With such a mild-mannered crew to boss, Manager Herzog gives his players free rein and has found it necessary to call only one meeting...