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Sophomore Don Pompan, whose hard, driving ground strokes seemed unaffected by the gale force, and senior Andy Chaikovsky, who mastered the wind with an assortment of junk shots that would make Luis Tiant proud, carried the day for the Crimson by winning their singles decisively and combining for a straight-set win at first doubles...
...wins, 68 losses), and picked up four minor players who can, at 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...
...understand what the departure of a Tom Seaver from New York or a Luis Tiant from Boston really means, one must understand the game as Nelson does. Baseball is a regular part of people's lives--not a once-a-week cathartic orgy of violence like football, or a repititious, unemotional sprint like basketball. Baseball strolls into America every spring, a welcome member of the family returned home for an annual visit...
This year the Yankees were at it again, buying up Red Sox Pitcher Luis Tiant and Dodger Pitcher Tommy John. Baseball Commissioner Bowie Kuhn notes that five teams have signed 53% of the free agents and warns that "inevitably this process will develop a group of elite teams." Actually, a few elite teams have long dominated the game. Still, the haves as well as the have-nots are worried about where free-agentry is leading baseball. Says Yankees President Al Rosen: "We're on a tragic course. Salaries have got out of hand. The system has got to change...
Last season, Tiant compiled a 13-8 record with a 3.31 earned run average. He had been with the Boston club since 1971, when they picked him up as a free agent after the Minnesota Twins released...