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Champions again after 15 bleak Octobers, the Giants felt safe in Los Angeles last week until they were all thrown out of bed by the earthquake. "Oh jeez, this is it," Infielder Chris Speier thought, lifting himself off the floor. "The Reds are going to make the play-offs after all." Taking to the street barefoot, huddling away from the hotel in their underwear, the San Francisco players contemplated the fates. In August, after four straight games lost in the opponent's last at-bat, the Giants were five behind Cincinnati and facing a four-game Reds series and maybe...
...Toronto Blue Jays made Kash Beauchamp, son of former major leaguer Jim Beauchamp, the first selection in the regular phase of the 1982 winter amateur draft. In contract news, Chris Speier signed a three-year deal with Montral, Dave Rozema signed a three-year deal with Detroit, negotiations between the Dodgers and Fernando Valenzuela have broken down with the two sides over half a million dollars apart, and the Red Sox have reportedly decided not to continue to pursue free-agent pitchers Rick Waits and Sid Monge...
Burris, who fanned three, never faced more than four batters in one inning. The Dodgers' only substantial threat came in the ninth, when they put two men on with one out. But shorstop Chris Speier backhanded a line drive just off the turf and flipped to second baseman Rodney Scott for a game-ending double play...
...Wallach and Chris Speier combined for the winning run in the second inning off Steve Carlton as the Montreal Expos beat the World Champion Philadelphia Phillies 3-1 in the first game of their best-of-five series for the National League East Championship...
...cults issue was thrust into harsh focus by last November's carnage at the Peoples Temple commune in Jonestown, Guyana. The most dramatic moments of the four-hour hearing came from Jackie Speier, a legislative counsel who accompanied the late Congressman Leo Ryan on his fatal visit to the Rev. Jim Jones' headquarters and survived gunshot wounds. Speier stated that there are 10 million cult members in the U.S. and warned: "The most important fact about Jonestown is, it can happen again...