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...silenced the sanguinary Reds fans in the opener, lashing home runs in his first two trips to the plate to set a new World Series record. Oakland managed only two more hits all day off three Cincinnati pitchers, but they were enough. Ken Holtzman and Relievers Rollie Fingers and Vida Blue checked the Big Red batters with seven hits (only one for extra bases) as the A's took the first game...
Oakland won yesterday's decisive fifth game, 2-1, on the strong arms of pitchers John "Blue Moon" Odom and Vida Blue and the flying feet of Reggie Jackson and George Hendrick...
...member teams stand on boundaries set 15 yards apart and take turns hurling a Pro Model Frisbee so hard, or on so tricky a trajectory, that no opponent can make a clean one-handed grab. It sounds easy, but catching the acrobatic platter can be as difficult as catching Vida Blue fastballs without a glove. Points are awarded to the throwing team if the receivers muff a catch, and to the receiving team if a throw goes too wide or too high. The first team to score 21 points wins. Desperate lunges, volleyball-style tips to keep the darting disk...
...also pitched 376 innings (the most by a major league hurler in 55 years) and threw 29 complete games (the most by an American League pitcher since 1946). So who won the 1971 Cy Young Award as the league's outstanding pitcher? Oakland's highly publicized Vida Blue...
First he demanded $115,000. Then $92,500. Then $70,000. Then, Pitcher Vida Blue announced that he was retiring from baseball at the age of 22 to sell bathroom and kitchen fixtures. Nobody believed him, least of all Oakland A's Owner Charles O. Finley, who paid Blue a cut-rate $14,750 last year. Finally, after four months of haggling, Blue signed for $50,000 plus $8,000 for his college education and a $5,000 bonus for winning 24 games last season. "I'll be lucky if I win ten games this season," said Vida...