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They knew it back in Northridge. During Scheper's senior year, his high school baseball team played for the Los Angeles City Championship under the lights at Dodger Stadium. When Granada Hills won the game--"the highlight of my high school career"--Scheper went more than just a little crazy...
...mystery was the benching of New York Centerfielder Jerry Mumphrey, spotlighted when Substitute Bobby Brown botched a play. (The lineup card was dusted for Steinbrenner's prints.) When this outlandish, delightful, 31-hr., ten-pitcher, 8-7 game was through, there was only one untainted hero: Dodger Jay Johnstone. He slammed a pinch homer in the sixth, took a bow and sat down. The Series was even...
...next day, Jerry Reuss outdueled Ron Guidry, 2-1; the Dodgers led, three games to two. "Their catcher beat our catcher; their pitcher beat our pitcher," Steinbrenner carped. The Dodger catcher, Steve Yeager, hit the winning home run in the seventh inning, right after Pedro Guerrero had homered to tie. Meanwhile, Yankee Catcher Rick Cerone looked overeager to his boss. "Cerone took us out of two innings first-ball hitting," fumed George, "and everyone knows Guidry's ERA in the last three innings this season is over 10." Still, with Guidry steaming along on a two-hitter, would Steinbrenner...
While the MVP award was divided like the season into three roughly equal slabs-Yeager, Guerrero (five RBIS in Game 6) and Ron Cey-the "Penguin's" part will be remembered longest. Cey made noise in all of the Dodger victories, hitting three-run homers or turning bunts into double plays, but the most resounding sound was his beaning by Rich Gossage in Game 5. "Sounded like a hollow log," Goose shuddered...
DIED. Harold Patrick ("Pete") Reiser, 62, former mesmerizing Brooklyn Dodger whose bid for superstardom was dashed by repeated injuries, most of which occurred when he crashed into outfield walls while chasing flyballs; of a respiratory illness; in Palm Springs, Calif. In 1941, his first full season, Reiser at 22 led the National League in batting (.343), slugging (.558), runs scored (117), total bases (299) and triples (17). The next year, "Pistol Pete" was smoking along at a .380 clip when he crashed into a centerfield wall while running after a line drive. He knocked himself unconscious...