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...baserunner who was involved in a home plate collision with Baltimore's Elrod Hendricks and umpire Ken Burkhart in the 1970 series...
...Throughout the St. Louis Cardinals' eleven-game winning streak, Whitey Herzog's key strategy was to have Reserve Outfielder Dane lorg deliver the lineup card to the umpires. Meanwhile, Earl Weaver was tossing the Oriole clubhouse looking for his own lucky messenger to end the drought. ("Has Elrod Hendricks been out there yet?" Weaver moaned last week...
...case before the court was brought by two assistant public defenders from Rockland County, N.Y., both Republicans. When a Democrat was appointed as their boss in 1978, he tried to replace them with members of his own party. The former test, developed in the 1976 decision Elrod vs. Burns, permitted dismissal of employees who held policy-making or confidential positions. The court ruled last week, however, that under the First Amendment's protection of the freedoms of belief and association, a public employee cannot be fired for partisan reasons unless "party affiliation is an appropriate requirement for the effective...
...reverence for those hulking black buzzard judges of the basepaths. Two egregious cases in point are two plays at the plate in the first games of the 1970 and 1973 Series. In 1970 Ken Burkhardt called the Reds' Bernie Carbo out when, as an instant replay showed, Baltimore catcher Elrod Hendricks missed the tag and Carbo the plate...
Cook County Sheriff Richard Elrod described De Mau Mau as a group of disgruntled Viet Nam veterans. Racial hatred, he said, "could have been one of the primary motives" for the slayings. "I can see no other apparent motivation." Chicago newspapers were quick to play up the case. Chicago Today, for instance, ran headlines declaring MURDER GANG 3,000 STRONG and DE MAU MAU TAKING OVER FOR THE PANTHERS. Sources close to the black-militant movement, however, called such charges preposterous, saying that De Mau Mau was a loosely organized group with less than 50 members...