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Reggie Jackson, after receiving the series' Most Valuable Player award from Sport magazine, which early in the season printed quotes by Reggie that resulted in a season-long feud between him and Catcher Thurman Munson: "I don't think that the award is ironic at all. They [Sport] deserve to have to kiss my butt...
...quarrel between these two perverse and powerful men often distracted people from a team that was full of fascinating conflicts. It was a sullen, gifted and divided ball club. Watching the owner and manager clash, the players eventually came to distrust them both. Stars such as Catcher Thurman Munson and Outfielder Mickey Rivers asked to be traded. The pitchers were often in revolt against the manager and each other. But the Yankees somehow were too talented not to endure. At season's end Martin, for all his sleepless nights, looked like a managing genius. And Steinbrenner...
Steinbrenner felt it was Martin who was baseball dumb. In the middle of July an event took place that Steinbrenner insists was the true turning point. He had flown to Milwaukee for an evening meeting with Martin and then went to bed. Shortly after midnight, two key players, Munson and Lou Piniella, knocked on Steinbrenner's door. They were distraught about the chaos on the team and bluntly told Steinbrenner that the Yankees could not win with Martin as the manager. Was this the way the owner ran his other companies, they challenged him? Steinbrenner was somewhat startled...
...other hand, was Sutton. Fashioning a game much like the one Burt Hooton threw against the Yanks two games earlier, the curly blond was never in trouble even though he yielded four runs, two of them in the eighth inning on back-to-back homers by Thurman Munson and Reggie Jackson...
Mike Torrez struck out nine and fired a complete game, getting support from Mickey Rivers, Thurman Munson and Reggie Jackson as the New York Yankees beat the Los Angeles Dodgers, 5-3, last night, to take a 2-1 edge in the world series...