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Yankee first baseman Chris Chambliss slugged the first pitch thrown by Kansas City speedballer Mark Littell in the bottom of the ninth over the right-center fence in refurbished Yankee Stadium last night, breaking up a 6-6 tie and catapulting the Bronx Bombers to their first American League penant since...
...attempting unsuccessfully to get into the stadium. An attractive woman was shoved face-first into a concrete wall outside the ballpark, and while she bleated in terror, three patrolmen watched unmoving. Pickpockets bumped profitably through the crowd lifting wallets, and young thugs from the wasteland of the South Bronx grabbed women's bottoms and tore open bodies. Some 500 uniformed New York police supposedly guarding the stadium had made no more than an occasional arrest by the night's stormy...
...refurbished Yankee Stadium, a $100 million worth of it, the Bronx Boy replaced the Mets as New York's darlings. The Yankees hit the top of their division in May and stayed there as Boston tumbled from 1975's glory to miserable fourth place. The only true pennant race was in the American League West, where the young Kansas City Royals tottered down to the final days before edging out the owner-savaged but still savvy Oakland...
During the bad years, if you took the "D" Train up to the Bronx and the Stadium, you could look forward to ducking firecrackers and waiting to see if Steve Hamilton would throw his famous Folly Floater (a high arc-lob which one day sent a bad-tempered Cleveland Indian literally crawling on his belly back to the dugout after he had whiffed three times on it; this the same day Bobby Murcer hit four consecutive home runs in the Next Mickey contest and Ray Fosse got hit by a cherry bomb which came flying from the second deck after...
After a four mile trek over sand hills, shrubbery, Fordham gneiss and rain showering the Bronx, the Harvard runners were still trailing the field coming up to Cemetery Hill, the aptly named final obstacle on the undulating course...