Umpire Tom Gorman Made Baseball Life A Passion
Tom Gorman, an NL umpire earning 35000 yearly, recalls a 196? injury at first base and a career built on calling plays accurately. He values camaraderie with partners Bill Williams John McSherry and Frank Pulley and notes television replays confirm umpires are right about 96 to 97 percent of the time. The piece highlights his odyssey from a pitcher to a wartime veteran to a top umpire aboard the Chicago Cubs Pirates era.
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SAN Francisco
NBA
Tom Gorman
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Angie Donatelli
Bill Williams
John McSherry
Frank Pulley
Is 20 enough for Alston
Walt Alston says twenty years with the Los Angeles Dodgers, by October 1973, will be enough to step down. He notes six NL pennants and four World Series titles and hints Maury Wills or Danny Ozark could succeed him, with possible interest in Ozark by another club.
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Los Angeles Dodgers
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Frank Robinson
Maury Wills
Danny Ozark
Jim Gilliam
Tom Lasorda
Albuquerque
Carrtown
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Ozark
Jack Benny
Wills
Stan Musial
Robinson
Lasorda
Gilliam
Frank Quilici
Don Zimmer
Chuck Tanner
Frank Lucchesi
Sparky Anderson
Earl Eaver
Helpful Golf Rule Spot Drops Mental Load
A golf rule allows dropping without penalty when a burrow hole, path, or mound affects stance. Beard’s book Shaving Strokes offers expert guidance, priced at $1 plus 25 cents postage, mailed from Lompoc Record to New York for delivery.
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P.O
Radio City
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N.Y
Lumberjack tourney opens with top axeman Arden Cogar
UPI reports at Hayward Wisconsin the lumberjack world championship opened as Arden Cogar of Western Springs West Virginia led the underhanded chop at 27.5 seconds and placed second in straightaway chopping at 33.7 seconds Ed Rosenmeyer of Sutherland Oregon was second in underhand time 31.1 seconds Bryan Herlihy of British Columbia won straightaway chopping at 33.5 seconds with several other events including power saw cutting speed climbing tree topping and bucking on the weekend schedule Van Johnson of Voluntown Connecticut logged a 17.1 second cut in the 20 inch leg of the saw event.
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Cogar
Western Springs
W.va
Ed Rosenmeyer
USSR teens take track meet lead at halfway point
The Soviet Union led the US in the first United States USSR junior track meet midway after 15 events. Valery Boyko won the pole vault leading a strong Soviet showing while Randy Williams took the long jump for the Americans.
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Sacramento
UPI
Soviet Union
Marshall Dill
Randy Williams
Ron Semkin
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