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True, the Yankees did win the pennant by beating the Kansas City Royals. But they did it with a patchwork of many of the best players in the American League, only four of whom came up through their farm system. Thurman Munson and Roy White, two of the Yankees who made it up from the Syracuse farm club, will be no match for their Cincinnati counterparts, Johnny Bench and George Foster...
Reaction was swift and varied -from both Carter backers, who were dismayed despite efforts to rationalize what he had done, and foes. Observed Georgia Democratic Chairwoman Marjorie Thurman, a Carter opponent in state politics: "Bad, bad, bad." South Carolina Senator Ernest Hollings expressed hope that "when he becomes President, he'll quit talking about adultery...
...wanted him as state party chairman. Kirbo hated the idea but agreed, and for almost three years he tolerated the job only because Carter wanted him to. "He was a lousy state chairman. Charlie is just not a political animal," says Georgia's present state chairman, Marge Thurman, who has little use for Carter but praises Kirbo's integrity. Adds another Carter critic in Atlanta: "If Carter ever gets to Washington, and starts to slide around, Kirbo will keep him in place...
...Yankees started the scoring in the first inning, when Roy White hit a one-out triple to center field. After Thurman Munson grounded out to second, Chris Chambliss drove in White on a fly to left, and Carlos May singled to right, sending Chambliss home...
...loud, and inarticulate, Yankee partisans sitting behind me seemed able to get really excited only when they could combine a Red Sox nickname with an epithet, like "Pudge, you stiff." With the possible exceptions of Catfish Hunter, Thurman Munson, and for unfathomable reasons, Lou Piniella, the Yankee players (who seem by and large to lack nicknames) have not caught the fancy of the city. Like Jimmy Carter, the Yankees' support is a mile wide but maybe only an inch deep...