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This is a serious business, this matter of voting. I mean it's one thing to punch those Gillette computer cards when you're already half-cocked in the Fenway bleachers, because it doesn't really matter if Fred Stanley or Steve Dillard is starting American League shortstop in the All-Star game...
...second game, the Reds' relentless ability to pressure mistakes told the tale. In the bottom of the ninth, the game was tied 3-3 when Griffey streaked toward first on a slow grounder. The hurried Yankee shortstop threw wide and Griffey cruised into second. From there he scored on Tony Perez's single. Perez has driven in at least 90 runs in each of the past ten seasons, yet he is the perennial subject of trade talk. This year Dan Driessen, 25, who was the Reds' designated hitter in the Series, is believed ready to replace...
...Thurman Munson showed his MVP fiber and capped a brillant series with four hits last night. Ken Griffey, a .330 hitter during the National League season, was laminated by Yankee breaking balls and finished up with but one safety in 16 trips. Fred Stanley proved himself a major league shortstop in front of one hundred million critics...
...shortstop, the Yanks' Fred Stanley has practically become a household word. Dave Concepcion is no match for this .240 hitter. The same is true at third base. How can Pete Rose, with a .323 average, compare to Graig Nettles, whose average hovered around .245 this year...
Once a New York University "basketball major," as he claims Kahn still scuba-dives and plays softball occasionally in Manhattan's Central Park. Last summer he filled in at shortstop for TIME'S big game against a SPORTS ILLUSTRATED team. (TIME won, 15-4, and Kahn went...