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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Died. Charles Berry, 69, All-America football player at Lafayette College (1924), major-league catcher during the '20s and '30s, and then one of the American League's most respected umpires; of a heart attack; in Evanston, Ill. Once, as a Red Sox catcher, Berry blocked a dash to home plate by Babe Ruth. Berry knocked the Babe so hard that he did a mid-air headstand, landed in a heap and was out of the game two weeks recovering from the injury. "But in spite of all I'd done to him," recalled Berry...
...does. Win or lose, Lyle is always the life of the Yankee locker room. His most curious antic is to plant his bare backside on any particularly gooey cakes that find their way into the locker room. It all started when he played for the Boston Red Sox and a teammate hit him in the face with a cake; when the teammate later received a cake as a gift, Lyle promptly retaliated by sitting...
Born in DuBois, Pa., Lyle has been a relief specialist for almost all of his major league career, which began with the Boston Red Sox in 1967. The Yankees had coveted him for two years, but it was not until before the start of this season that they finally acquired him in a trade for First Baseman Danny Cater. At the start of last week, after Sparky had played a part in eight of nine Yankee victories over a twelve-game stretch, the team was only 1½ games out of first place in the American League's Eastern...
Baseball. It's here already, the major eague All-Star Game, from Atlanta Stadium. CHANNEL 4. Tuesday, 8 p.m. Red Sox vs. New York. CHANNEL 4. Thursday...
Baseball--Red Sox vs. California. Tuesday, 7:30, CHANNEL 4, Red Sox vs. Oakland, Thurs., 7:30, CHANNEL...