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White swiped second and Munson drilled a single to move him along, and the Yankee captain later scored on Chambliss's sacrifice...
...Yankees started the scoring in the first inning, when Roy White hit a one-out triple to center field. After Thurman Munson grounded out to second, Chris Chambliss drove in White on a fly to left, and Carlos May singled to right, sending Chambliss home...
...loud, and inarticulate, Yankee partisans sitting behind me seemed able to get really excited only when they could combine a Red Sox nickname with an epithet, like "Pudge, you stiff." With the possible exceptions of Catfish Hunter, Thurman Munson, and for unfathomable reasons, Lou Piniella, the Yankee players (who seem by and large to lack nicknames) have not caught the fancy of the city. Like Jimmy Carter, the Yankees' support is a mile wide but maybe only an inch deep...
...Thurman Munson, a perennial bird-shooter, touched Oriole starter and loser Ross Grimsley for a two-run single in the fifth after the Yanks had taken a 1-0 lead in the first inning...
...That proved to be no obstacle: if they could not pay in dollars, they would pay in land. The Commissioners announced that whoever would fill in the Back Bay would be given four city blocks of the new land, 260,000 square feet in all. A Vermonter, Norman C. Munson, contracted for the job. Work began in 1859. Using two recent innovations, the railroad and the steam shovel, workmen hauled gravel from Needham, nine miles distant, and deposited it in the Back Bay, finishing the task two decades later...