Allen Heads AL All-Star Team
Richie Allen of the Chicago White Sox earned the American League starting first base spot in the All-Star game balloting with 1,092,758 votes announced by Commissioner Bowie Kuhn. Allen leads AL with 19 home runs and 61 RBIs and sits .290.
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NEW York
Richie Allen
Chicago White Sox
Atlanta
Philadelphia Phillies
Luis Aparicio
Carl Yastrzemski
Red Sox
Aparicio
Yastrzemski
Oakland
Reggie Jackson
Southern Meets Dixie In Area 2 Little League Final
Dixie Little League edged Southwest 2-1 in seven innings in the opening game of the Area 2 tournament at Dixie Park. Mike Wooten earned the win with a bases loaded double in the seventh after Ron Reeves fanned 14 for Southwest. Southern advanced after routing Western 6-1 as Tony Hamby and Roy Morin led the first inning momentum.
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Mike Craig
Dixie
Mike Wooten
Lane Bohner
Bruce Cooper
Southern
Mike Warden
Dave Daniel
Avalanche Journal
Dixie Little League
Dixie Park
Southwest
Western
Ron Reeves
Wooten
Reeves
Micah Blalock
Kirk Armstrong
Kevin Foster
Jeff Harp
Pat Randolph
Cooper
Southerners
Tony Hamby
Roy Morin
Fort Worth hosts U S Olympic boxing trials start
More than 80 amateur boxers compete on the Texas Christian University campus to select U S Olympic team candidates. Notables include Duane Bobick James Busceme and Bobby Lee Hunter with weigh-ins today and finals set for Saturday.
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TCU
Fort Worth
UPI
United States
U.S
Munich
Olympic Boxing Committee
Texas Christian University
Duane Bobick
James Busceme
Bobby Lee Hunter
South Carolina
West Point
Bear Mountain
N.Y
Eagles star absences push camp start to timing
Philadelphia general manager Pete Retzlaff declined to chase Tim Rossovich and Bill Bradley as veteran Eagles camp opened in Reading. The two stars, a linebacker and a cornerback who led the league in interceptions last season, failed to attend and had not been reached by Tuesday.
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Pete Retzlaff
Philadelphia Eagles
Tim Rossovich
Bill Bradley
Rossovich
Bradley
Texas
Eagles
Retzlaff
Philadelphia
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Clinton Streets
South Plains trio caught in AAU NCAA clash over Russian meet
Randy Lightfoot Tim Son and Larry Petree certified for the U S junior track team set to face Russia in Sacramento but NCAA sanction is unresolved Baylor officials advised Son to sit tight as Baylor AD confirms. NCAA and Southwest Conference say the meet not sanctioned risking eligibility. Lightfoot and Petree prepared to travel with Son seeking possible sanction.
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Don Henry
Avalanche-Journal
South Plains
Randy Lightfoot
Tim Son
Plainview
Larry Petree
Idalou
U.S
Sacramento
Calif
Baylor University
Baylor
Jack Patterson
Amateur Athletic Union
NCAA
Patterson
Southwest Conference
Jimmy Gailey
Lightfoot
Texas
Petree
UTEP
West Coast
Los Angeles
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