Word: thurman
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...quarrel between these two perverse and powerful men often distracted people from a team that was full of fascinating conflicts. It was a sullen, gifted and divided ball club. Watching the owner and manager clash, the players eventually came to distrust them both. Stars such as Catcher Thurman Munson and Outfielder Mickey Rivers asked to be traded. The pitchers were often in revolt against the manager and each other. But the Yankees somehow were too talented not to endure. At season's end Martin, for all his sleepless nights, looked like a managing genius. And Steinbrenner...
Sutton, on the other hand, was Sutton. Fashioning a game much like the one Burt Hooton threw against the Yanks two games earlier, the curly blond was never in trouble even though he yielded four runs, two of them in the eighth inning on back-to-back homers by Thurman Munson and Reggie Jackson...
Mike Torrez struck out nine and fired a complete game, getting support from Mickey Rivers, Thurman Munson and Reggie Jackson as the New York Yankees beat the Los Angeles Dodgers, 5-3, last night, to take a 2-1 edge in the world series...
While L.A. took batting practice off the Three point Five Million Dollar Man, Hooton gave up only five hits, none coming after the fifth inning. No Yankee had more than one hit and the quartet of Thurman Munson, Reggie Jackson, Chris Chambliss and Graig Nettles only managed two safeties between them. Some Murderers...
...Royals kept right on going in the third, Mayberry taking Dick Tidrow deep to stretch the lead to 6-0. The Yankees countered against K.C. starter Paul Splittorff in the bottom of the inning when Thurman Munson cracked a tworun shot...