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Princeton goalie Gray was the stopper for the Tigers, making 17 saves, no less than five of which were spectacular...
...best, be counted on as utility men. Meanwhile, the Yankees, true to then-big-spending ways, obtained two more front-line pitchers: the Dodgers' Tommy John and, unkindest cut of all, Boston's Luis Tiant. Ageless and irrepressible, Tiant was a favorite of Boston fans and a stopper for crucial games; typically, it was Tiant who threw the shut-out that tied the Yanks on the last day of the season. More important, he was the heart of the Red Sox clubhouse, the only man who could make his teammates laugh while their world crumbled about them...
...kids came, too. Seven freshmen, the most coach Billy Cleary had carried in four years of first-year eligibility, grabbed spots on the big club. We were told that Burke was the gunner, Olson the hitter, Watson the digger, Lau the stopper, while Cleary told more than one person that the crop of Crimson rookies was the best he's ever seen...
Figueroa, who had been having trouble getting his breaking stuff over, then came completely unstrung, giving up a two-run single to light-hitting Frank White. That blow made the score 5-0 and sent "Senor Stopper" to the showers...
...laugher. A choker. A squeaker. A heart stopper. The four-game series in Los Angeles' Dodger Stadium had everything a baseball fan could hope for. It was high August, but the lead in the National League West had changed hands twice in four days. It was high August, but the teams sweating it out from game to game were not just the plump, lordly Dodgers and the once mighty Cincinnati Reds. For San Francisco has risen from the dead, and to Giant fans, at least, sweet are the uses of resurrection...