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...ended in a strikeout, and suddenly the Dodgers led their rematch with the Yankees, two games to zip. Young Welch's achievement vindicated the old-fashioned Dodger way of baseball: scout the hinterlands for raw talent, groom it carefully down on the farm, then bring young players up to the parent club to fill the gaps that age and injury inevitably open during the long, hot summer. Of a 25-man roster, 13 are onetime Dodger farm boys. In contrast, the Yankees built their team by spending big bucks on the free-agent market and have only six home...
...thought to myself, why should I be so ruthless on the Dartmouth people? Why should I call them farmers just because the zip code of Hanover, N.H. is FIEIO? Why should I criticize their high school addiction to beer? Why should I harp on their school's incredible inferiority complex towards Harvard, Yale, New York, the Bronx, and Staten Island too? Why should I snicker about the school's female population, which, not counting the women who work in the dining hall, has yet to reach three figures? Why should I dwell on the fact that their football team suffers...
...defrauded and writers of wrongs find themselves very much in demand. Last year Action Line columns answered more than 2 million complaints. Action Lines unmask unscrupulous repairpersons, humble haughty bureaucrats, chasten heartless computers, stay the hands of overeager credit companies, track lost merchandise to the ends of the zip-coded universe and locate spare parts for Polish-built refrigerators. They are the new Miss Lonelyhearts, multiplied many times over. As White House Consumer Adviser Esther Peterson told them, "You are a growth industry. I salute you for raising the awareness of the public...
Yastrzemski, the aging warrior who perhaps wanted a World Series ring more than any player in the game, cracked a Guidry fastball 20 rows deep in the rightfield grandstand, leading off the second inning; and the home squad had a one-zip lead...
UMass broke loose and put together two long drives in the second stanza, but the combination of bad field position (Al MacMurray averaged 35.5 yards per punt for the Crimson) and a stingy Harvard defense inside the 30-yd. line kept the score three-zip at the half...