Word: bullpens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pitching staff ranges from erratic to pathetic: the team tends to win games by scores like 11: 8, 10-9, a match of 7-5 is a veritable duel of greathurlers. An Earned Run Average of 3.50 is unheard of, and the relief pitching is so bad that the bullpen ought to be seized by a people's tribunal and converted into several homes for working-class families. Even the cheerleading Boston press has become exasperated with this bunch: Globe columnist Bob Ryan in a recent evaluation of the team that drew much are from the more reverent fans, wrote...
...because I could pitch," he recalls in a languorous Texas drawl. "My idea of pitching was to throw as hard as you could." That he did, walking batters by the dozen. His difficulties were not eased by chronic blisters on his pitching fingers or long stints in the bullpen...
...hard to imagine where an organization could find a man who was willing to discuss the only the implementation of the bonus plan--its bureaucratic impossibilities, and government meddling. But the YAF reached into its libertarian bullpen and produced the agreeable Rusher. This slow, just plain boring speaker (one Yale dean lunged for a book which he gleefully read upside down for a couple of pages in mid-argument) never moved beyond the gospel according to William F. Buckley. His laissez-faire attitude even extended to his unpolished debating techniques, apparently not improved by his stint...
...PITTSBURGH--Laden with statistical leaders in every hitting category, the powerful Pittsburgh Pirates have sent out an S.O.S. to every steady hurler available. Fireman Dave Guisti is a question mark in the bullpen, while the status of a southpaw is even more dubious...
...OAKLAND--Even losing a 25-game winner can't topple the A's from Western supremacy. Ken Holtzman and Vida Blue comprise a potent duo, with Rollie Fingers anchoring the bullpen duties...