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Finley's availability contrasts with the elusiveness of "Sore Throat," the man who claims to be a former high-ranking employee of the American Medical Association, and whose revelations have triggered congressional inquiries into the A.M.A. This week Washington Correspondent Marguerite Michaels received Sore Throat's latest leak (see MEDICINE). The only problem was that the leak came in a series of brief takes, as Sore Throat telephoned Michaels from phone booths. "He refused to leave numbers where I could reach him, and he wasn't very good at calling at set times," she reports. After missing...
...Mike Andrews is something the A's will not soon forget. After Andrews made two costly errors in the second game of the 1973 World Series against the New York Mets, Finley announced that the team physician had found the second baseman unfit to play because of a sore arm. Bent on making room for another player to strengthen his roster, Finley dropped Andrews from the team. In protest, the A's wore his No. 17 on their sleeves at a workout before the third game. To a man, they insist that Finley ordered the doctor to fabricate a reason...
...Daniel forget our ride out to Peg's. The sun melted up on Galena Pass; on mountains still white and green from the late winter, not yet brown, sapped, sore, crumbly from the summer's desert sun. And the sun was smooth on the summit: the Sawtooths stretched about as far as the eye could see; blue, brittle, gaping; Pegleg's valley fell below...
...seven straight now, though, and people in Boston are getting hysterical. Dubious, still, perhaps-last year's experience was too depressing. But give it a week or so. There's a run-off with the Yankees coming up, and soon it might be just like the days of sore. And all will be forgiven again
Pression said he was not sore whether the traffic department will attempt to reach out-of-state violators...