Royals Roll to Fifth Straight as Pitching Dominates
Kansas City continues its hot start with a six hit effort from Al Fitzmorris guiding a 2-1 win over Texas. The Royals stretch to nine wins in 11 games, maintaining a 12-game AL West lead as Oakland sweeps Minnesota.
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Herschel Nissenson
Kansas City Royals
Royals
Texas Rangers
al Fitzmorris
Oakland A’s
Minnesota Twins
Jack McKeon
Steve Busby
Paul Splittorff
Fitzmorris
Nelson Briles
Bruce Dal Canton
Kansas City
Texas
Steve Hargan
Hal McRae
George Brett
Fred Patek
A’s
Twins
Dave Hamilton
Mike Norris
Thrill packed Save Granger 2 at May PBM meet
Kirby Cedeno and Richard Driessen headline a fast paced Save Granger 2 event with Carroll Howard and McEnaney in the line up. May marks a PBM session with a 2 38 and 35 19 times noted.
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Save—Granger
Kirby Cedeno
Richard Driessen
C.carroll Howard
Kirby
Balk—McEnaney
PBM
May
Kingman Delivers in Mets Doubleheader Sweep
A erratic but effective Ollie Kingman powered the Mets past the Cubs in both ends of a doubleheader, lifting New York to a 4-3 win in game two after a 8-6 opener. John Stearns and Ed Kranepool fueled a 7-0 lead as Chicago faltered late.
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Indians
Brewers
Tom McCraw
Rico Carty
Frank Duffy
Cleveland
Jim Slaton
Charlie Moore
Yankees
Tigers
New York
Vern Ruhle
Ed Herrmann
Ron Blomberg
Kingman
San Francisco Giants
Mets
Chicago Cubs
Ironsides
Rick Baldwin
Jose Cardenal
Cardenal
Baldwin
Yogi Berra
Chicago
Jim Marshall
John Stearns
Ed Kranepool
Giants
Dodgers
Chris Speier
San Francisco
Los Angeles
Geoff Zahn
Derrel Thomas
Bobby Murcer
Gary Matthews
Zahn
Ed Goodson
Speier
Murcer
Matthews
Braves
Padres
Darrell Evans
Marty Perez
Atlanta
San Diego
Pirates
Cards
John Denny
Pittsburgh
St. Louis
Ken Brett
Brett
Major League Leaders in Batting and Pitching Stats
Baseball leaders across the leagues include Wynn and Rose leading runs and hits with the Dodgers and Reds. Key pitchers Morton Sutton and Seaver top wins and strikeouts, while May and Henderson pace American League batting and runs batted in.
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Wynn
Evans
Aui
Rose
Cin
Garvey
Morgan
Chi
Bench
Cash
Phi
R Andrews
Hun
Murcer
Kingman
Luzinski
Atl
Cedeno
Lopes
Morton
Sutton
Seaver
Richard
Hin
Chalk
Cal
Carew
Min
Henderson
Otis
R.jackson
Oak
Randle
Tex
L.may
Bal
Bochte
Burroughs
C.may
Rudi
Singleton
Yastrzemski
Ben
Lezcano
Mil
McRae
Borgmann
Bsn
Patek
Lynn
Powell
Cle
Briggs
Rivers
North
Nelson
Ryan
Champion
Fitzmorris
Blue
Blyleven
Baseball Standings And Monday Schedule In Early Season Update
Standings show New York 8.4 and Chicago 63 with Cincinnati 5 6 and Houston 37. Montreal games were postponed due to cold weather. Monday’s schedule includes San Francisco at Cincinnati and Los Angeles at Atlanta, with other matchups listed and several games completed across the circuit.
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New York
Chicago
Cincinati
Houston
Pittsburgh
St. Louis
Atlanta
San Diego
Philadelphia
Montreal
San Francisco
Los Angeles
Caldwell
Cincinnati
Norman
Ray
Capra
Jones
Roberts
Boston
Milwaukee
Baltimore
Detroit
Cleveland
Kansas City
Oakland
California
Texas
Minnesota
S. Francisco
Feature win for Hounshell at Eldora Speedway
Ed Hounshell of Middletown won the 20 lap hobby stock feature at Eldora Speedway driving a 1957 Chevrolet. He nosed out Chick Hale of Lewisburg by half a car length to take the lead in the hobby stock point standings.
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Rossburg
Ed Hounshell
Middletown
Eldora Speedway
Hounshell
Chick Hale
Lewisburg
Richard bails out Astros high drama in Cincinnati split
Houston ace J R Richard pitched through control trouble to lead the Astros to a split with the Reds, snapping a seven game skid. Cincinnati rallied with Joe Morgan homering in the ninth but Wayne Granger closed it out. Reds’ Pete Rose worried about facing Richard’s velocity as the teams prepared for a San Francisco series.
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Cincinnati
J.R. Richard
Texas
Cincinnati Reds
Houston Astros
Richard
Reds
Astros
Pete Rose
Rose
Preston Gomez
Joe Morgan
Wayne Granger
Johhny Bench
Clay Kirby
Clay Carroll
Fred Sherman
San Francisco
Fred Norman
Mike Caldwell
Ex Middies Honored At 53rd Awards Banquet
Two former Middletown High athletes were among 204 honored at the 53rd Annual Awards Banquet at Columbia University in New York City. Ken Gregory, a defensive back for the Columbia varsity football team, received a grid letter and Jeff Wetzel earned a varsity swimming award.
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Middletown High
Columbia University
New York City
Ken Gregory
Columbia
Jeff Wetzel
Spring sports results for Monroe and Mason teams
Monroe defeats Mason 7 to 3 in a spring matchup. Norwood Gressie leads Monroe with a 7 2 win over John XXIII. In tennis Monroe also beats Mason 3 2.
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Monroe
Mason
Norwood Gressie
John XXIII
Dodgers Struck by Injuries As Season Opens
Los Angeles nods to a mounting injury list as Mike Marshall and Bill Buckner join a growing DL shadow. Yeager Paciorek Russell already out. Buckner cast ankle and Marshall rib separation threaten weeks, while Tommy John’s elbow recovery will sideline him half the season.
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Dodgers
Mike Marshall
Bill Buckner
Los Angeles
Steve Yeager
Tom Paciorek
Bill Russell
Marshall
Buckner
Cy Young
Dodger
Tommy John
John
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