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...future Yankee manager Gene Michael, whom he canned last fall but soon rehired for the 1983 season. Schaap doesn't forget to mention the owner's interference with his managers' decisions, or his proclivity for spending ungodly sums on utility infielders, or his psychological warfare with ex-Yankee slugger Reggie Jackson...
...baseball's spring training got under way last week, former New York Yankee Slugger Reggie Jackson was in the red, white and blue livery of the California Angels, his fourth team since 1975. Before embarking on that odyssey by leaving the Oakland A's for first the Baltimore Orioles and then the Yankees, Jackson had predicted that some day "they'd name a candy bar after...
BOSTON--Former Red Sox slugger Tony Conigliaro was admitted to Massachusetts General Hospital Saturday morning after suffering a serious heart attack...
...drive regular actors up the wall." Last week Spillane and pals gathered at a bowling alley in Teaneck, N.J., to shoot another of the award-winning spots. Those present included Comedian Rodney Dangerfield, Actress Lee Meredith, Boston Celtics President Red Auerbach, former Oakland Raiders Coach John Madden, ex-Baltimore Slugger Boog Powell and retired New York Jet Matt Snell. Off-camera the jocks disputed the merits of their various sports. "The baseball people make fun of football, and the football people make fun of baseball," says Madden. None of the high spirits were brew-inspired, he said, adding: "We never...
...make my contribution," swore Yankee Slugger Dave Winfield, who went hitless through four games. The hobbled Jackson came back from the bench to get two singles and a homer in the fourth game, but that was not enough to prevent the Dodgers from winning 8-7 and tying the Series at two games apiece. "Not many days left in October," brooded Reggie...