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Just 18 months ago, Los Angeles won its second consecutive N.L. title, and the same starters are all back. Best rookie crop in baseball joins them. Up from Albuquerque come Mickey Hatcher (.371 batting average), speedster Rudy Law, Kelly (son of Duke) Snider (.304), Bobby Mitchell (.327) and Pedro Guerrero (.333). All in all, a team with few--if any--weaknesses which should win its third flag in four years...
Philadelphia grew some of its diligent talent on its farm club, the Maine Mariners of the American Hockey League, established at the end of the 1977 season. Says Flyer Owner Edward M. Snider: "Purchasing the Maine team has been the single most important step we've made in the past several years. I know we wouldn't be where we are today without it." From the Mariners, who play in Portland, Me., the Flyers got not only Coach Quinn but a flock of nine flashy rookies, including Goaltender Pete Peeters, 22 (who shares the nets with Phil Myre...
...Duke Snider...
Kahn's ability to avoid the mawkish trivialities shows in his two recent books. The first, The Boys of Summer, was a story of his love affair with the old Brooklyn Dodgers, the Ebbets Field titans like Snider and Furillo and Robinson, and how they braved the autumn of their retirement. Suffused with the warmth of an adoring child who has recognized the mortality of his idols, the book was an endearing autobiography as well as a finely-tooled bit of nostalgia...
Chip Woods was more elusive. Two days after the kidnaping, he flew into Vancouver, Canada, with a passport identifying him as "Ralph Lester Snider"-the name, it turned out, of a six-year-old child from Santa Clara county who was killed in an auto accident in 1960. Somehow the FBI learned that Woods was going to pick up a package at the general delivery window in a Vancouver post office on July 29. When he arrived, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police were waiting...