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...amazing rookie campaign, Dwight Gooden broke the record for most strikeouts in a season by a first-year player, by whiffing 276 batters. The Good Guy did not break the rookie single-game strikeout mark, despite several 15-K plus outings. Ten points for identifying this high flying rookie, who struck out 18 in his first year...
PRINCETON, N.J.--New Jersey native Jeff tossed an 11- strikeout, two-hitter in the opener, but the Harvard baseball team had to settle for a split yesterday in the first twin bill of its Eastern League season...
...expresses more than just respect, a fondness for Mike Bossy, Bryan Trottier and especially Denis Potvin of the crumbling Islander dynasty. Mimicking strikeout Pitchers Steve Carlton and Nolan Ryan, Bossy and Gretzky pass the three-goal hat-trick record to and fro. But Gretzky is most conscious of the defenseman Potvin, and not only because Potvin is one of those formidable superstructures whose presence on any side of the ice sends the pacifists to the other. Two years ago, in a slip that irritated New York fans, Gretzky referred to the Montreal Canadiens as hockey's greatest team when...
...nice to see it happen folder'. A phenom who loves to throw 93 mph heat, a pitcher who makes me really appreciate the strikeout...
...baseball fan for half a century, I dispute Tom Callahan's contention that we all depreciate present-day stars in favor of those from our youth [Aug. 22]. I rate Johnny Bench ahead of Mickey Cochrane, Bill Dickey and Roy Campanella. I rate Strikeout Artist Nolan Ryan above Bob Feller, Dizzy Dean and Sandy Koufax. And I rate Callahan's pithy, disciplined but delicious piece on the waning golden age above any single article I have ever read by Grantland Rice or Red Smith. So, Tom, don't go around prejudging us as prejudgers! Hear...