Word: winners
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...regular season-the most by any lefthander since 1900, and Don Drysdale (salary: $115,000), the burly righthander who recovered from a dismal start to win four out of his last five starts as the Dodgers swept to the National League pennant. The Dodgers also had 17-game Winner Claude Osteen, and a bullpen staff headed by Phil ("The Vulture") Regan, whose 1966 performance was nothing short of fantastic: 14 victories, only one loss, and an earned-run average (1.62) even lower than Sandy Koufax...
...odds never played baseball," grunted Baltimore Manager Hank Bauer. "Our own pitching isn't so bad either." Oh, no? The Orioles' best pitcher, Steve Barber, spent most of the season on the disabled list with a sore arm and was ineligible for the series. Their top winner, Jim Palmer (record: 15-10), gave up so many home runs (20) that his teammates nicknamed him "Boom-Boom." Baltimore's starters managed to complete only 23 games all season-four fewer than Koufax alone. That provided a lot of work for the Birds' bullpen-which was just fine...
...York, Oct. 7--The Harvard soccer team got the break it needed to be a winner when Lutz Hoeppner's deflected shot squirmed into the corner of the Columbia goal at 5:22 of the first period here this afternoon...
...Orioles pulled two games up on the Dodgers by whipping 27-game winner Sandy Koufax 6-0 yesterday behind the shutout pitching of 20-year-old Jim Palmer (15-10). Palmer became the youngest winner ever of a Series game...
Meanwhile, the new system has spawned the practice of flipping at the end of a meal to see which man carries back all the forks, and which man carries back the spoons. The winner presumably drops the collected napkins and ice cream wrappers in the big barrel...