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...DENICE SPROWL...
...ever. The pitching staff has not performed beyond anyone's expectations, but neither have they backed down. New faces like Steve Renko have been struggling for recognition right from February 15, and they have produced better than even Earl Weaver could have expected. Last year's pitching blanks--Bob Sprowl, John LaRose, Andy Hassler--were tossed into more pressure than even Don Zimmer's surgeon could imagine, having to face the Yankees, the Yankees, and the Yankees as the Red Sox lost a game a day for a month and Bill Lee smirked in the bullpen, reading riddles from...
...back into the rotation; he never even got another nine innings over the rest of the season. Instead of using veteran Lee, who had a 12-5 lifetime record against the Yankees, during the two four-game duels with the New Yorkers, Zimmer went with John LaRose and Bobby Sprowl, who were brought up from Boston's Pawtucket, R.I. farm team just for the occasion. They were making their major league debuts, and they both were sent to the showers early...
Detroit picked up all its runs on home run blasts--John Wockenfuss's two-runner in the second, the amazing Rusty Staub's solo shot in the fifth (both off starter Bobby Sprowl), and Steve Kemp's upper-deck ozone ball in the eighth (off Bob Stanley...
Better care of pets in their youth and prime has prolonged their lives, set vets to talking of geriatrics. Los Angeles' Dr. Raymond Sprowl has a hundred old dogs on a regular digitalis regimen. Dr. McBride regularly treats grizzled males for prostatitis (usually by castration) and performs mammectomies on females. Operations for cataract are everyday affairs; some aging, presbyopic dogs have been fitted with plastic contact lenses...