Word: player
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Size was still the problem. Then-freshman coach Loyal Park had set the squad within a week of the player's arrival, and, probably due to size, Horner did not catch...
Assistant Tufts coach Larry Story, who was a freshman on the Yale football team in 1968, remembers when he saw Gatto on the field. "He had an intensity as a player which he carries with him as a coach," Story says...
...player with credentials like Stenhouse draws baseball scouts faster than an open bar. By the time the 1979 spring draft rolled around, several teams--especially the Red Sox and Yankees--had shown interest, and the leftfielder had told them he wanted to play pro ball...
They did. On the final selection of the first round, the Oakland A's, who had never spoken to, or shown even the remotest interest in Mike Stenhouse, made him the 26th college player selected in the nation...
...reason the A's never contacted him is probably because they have no full-time scouts and their orgainization is the laughing stock of professional baseball. Finley has sold every player from the great championship teams of 1972, 1973, and 1974, and is trying hard to sell the whole team. In the meantime, he runs them like a pretzel stand. And pays commensurate salaries...