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...Boston Red Sox have given pitcher Skip Lockwood permission to renegotiate with other teams and make a deal for himself. The Socks optioned Rich Ged. man, John Lickert. Chico Walker, Julio Vaidez, Mike Smithson and Luis Aporte to Pawtucket...
With Bob Stanley and Mark Clear set in the bullpen, Burgmeier (Boston's most effective reliever last season at 5-4, 2.00), Dick Drago, Luis Aponte, Mike Smithson, Bill Campbell, Skip Lockwood, and Wim Remmerswaal (who is out of options) will, barring a trade, struggle for the final slot...
...political instincts were more right. Particularly at the local level, the creationists represent strong popular feeling. In Dallas, school officials recommended that teachers use books that teach "two models" of the origin of life and the earth, Darwinian and creationist. In Anchorage, ninth-grade teachers have been ordered to skip the sections in history texts dealing with evolution, at least until the school board can provide additional material on divine creation...
Obviously, manager Ralph Houk will give a good, long look to those who have pitched well in the majors, like southpaw John Tudor (8-5, 3.02 in Boston last year) and vet Skip Lockwood. He'll also be inspecting perennial prospects Win Reramerswaal and Keith MacWhorter, neither of whom made it big in their short stints in Massachusetts last year...
...colleges that complain of sagging enrollment. As director of admissions for Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Me., Moll brought a slice of pizazz to the countrified, 186-year-old alma mater of Nathaniel Hawthorne and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Moll persuaded Bowdoin to allow applicants to skip the College Board exams, an attention-getting move, and he issued a new college brochure splashed with photos of sunsets, lobster pots and the Maine seacoast. Results during Moll's eight years at Bowdoin, applications increased from...