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Hartford Courant from Hartford, Connecticut • 90

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D8 THE HARTFORD COURANT: Sunday, May 2, 1982 toasts. GET READY FOR WARMER WEATHER SUMMER SHAPE-UP TWO MONTH MEMBERSHIP ONLY Yesterday's Heroes Young Once More 1 00 Jr fl 10 By TOM YANTZ Courant Staff Writer NOW IS THE TIME TO GET READY LeUSr 1 RACQUETOALL LESSONS RACQVETBALL CLUB WEIGHTLIFTING 2199 rock? 553-7999 STATE OF CONNECTICUT USED CAR COURANT PHOTO BY JUDY GRIESEDIECK Former Red Sox stars, from left, Eddie Popowski, Dave "Boo" Ferriss, Lee Stange, Russ Gibson and Jimmy Piersall, share a laugh during Saturday's Old-Timers Game at Boston's Fenway Park. Yawkey (part owner and president of the Red Sox). It'll be a total surprise to her." The players renewed friendships and exchanged hugs before the Old-Timers Game. It was a family reunion.

Stories, some 40 years old, were swapped. "Oh yes, we remember those like they happened yesterday," said Pesky, former shortstop and now a Red Sox coach. "Hey, Stuart, where's your said Earl "The Duke" Wilson. "Glove? Stuart's got no glove," Stuart said. Some of the uniforms didn't fit because of the years and extra pounds at the waist.

Still they dressed quickly, laced up their spikes and hurried to the field. When Piersall was introduced, he sprinted from the Red Sox dugout and slid into second base to a standing ovation. The loudest and most sustained cheering, however, was saved for Williams. As he strolled to second, the noise was deafening for the most famous of all the Red Sox. On the field the "White" team rallied for seven runs in its last at-bat to defeat the "Red" squad, 7-6.

Billy Goodman and Bobby Doerr each had two singles for the Red. Bob Montgomery aided the Red cause with a two-run homer in the left field net. The White battled back in the third. The reflexes were sharp, the hits were dropping and the legs were fleet. Geiger's stinging bases-loaded double provided his team with victory.

As the ball bounced around the right field corner with Jackie Jensen in chase, Geiger turned first, sped to second and made a perfect fade-away slide. The old-timers were young once more. BOSTON The hands of time were turned back for three glorious hours at Fenway Park Saturday afternoon. The passing of years was forgotten. These baseball players were young again.

Gary Geiger, an outfielder whose promising career was shortened by a collapsed lung, stood motionless in front of his locker to admire his double-knit Boston Red Sox jersey No. 7. The memories came flooding back. It was the first Red Sox Old-Timers Game, a day to remember, a day to enjoy for Geiger, the 34 other old-timers and the sold-out Fenway crowd, "I'm so overwhelmed by it all," said Geiger, who works for a private school in Tulsa, and coaches its seventh-grade baseball team. "It's really unbelievable." "This is the first time my father has been back here and seen these guys in 17 years," said Gary Geiger Jr.

"This is the happiest I've seen him in my life." Flip back the calender and remember these Red Sox Jimmy Piersall patrolling center field, Johnny Pesky slapping hits, Dick Stuart forgetting his glove and Ted Williams conducting a hitting clinic. They all returned to celebrate the 50 years of Red Sox ownership by the Yawkey family. "I wouldn't have come if it wasn't for Tom Yawkey (the sole owner of the club for 44 years before he died in 1976)," Williams said. "This is the first Old-Timers Game I've ever played in. I wouldn't have missed it for the world." Mike Andrews, the second baseman of the '67 pennant-winning team, saw each old-timer to collect money before the game.

"The money is for a silver bowl to be enscribed with all of our signatures, which we will give Mrs. Waster and Wheel DATE: SATURDAY, May 8, 1982 PLACE: Stat Surplus Garage, 60 Stat Street, Wetherefield, Conn. (Rear, Motor Vehicle Dept.) TIME: VEHICLE INSPECTION 8:30 A.M. CAR AUCTION 9:30 A.M. TRUCK AND EQUIPMENT AUCTION 1:00 P.M.

THE STATE OF CONNECTICUT WIU SELL INDIVIDUALLY TO THE HIGHEST BIDDERS, PASSENGER VEHICLE, TRUCKS, VANS BUSSES AND MISCELLANEOUS EQUIPMENT. IndudMl will int.rm.diat.i, full mm Mdant and station wagoni. The 1972 to (979 mockb offend ara AMC Ambanadors, Matadors, Gremlin, and Chmvrolttt Chovettet and Plymouth Dutten, Fury, and a Volaro wagon; Fora1 Curtain LTD', and LTD a luick Century and Pontlat TRUCKS AND EQUIPMENTl A 1949 Autocar a 1943 Chevrolet fire engine; other truck, from 1966 thru 1978'. are ford Econoiine van. and utility body; Chevy C-IO van, Chevy 16 ft.

body van; GAC' Van, utility and dump, ako a GMC catch basin deaner; an International cab and chaiiis; Dedgt 15 paiMngw buii.s, 40 pauengor bus, and 14 panenger van. Miuollansous offering, will be plowl, a lime spreader and tar kettle. Junk', and inoperative vehicle, will also be sold. CONDITIONS OF SALE: All vehicles and equipment sold "as Is." The State reserves the right te reject any sr all bids which It deems net In Its best interest and to add or withdraw any item advertised. Additional State andor municipal vehicles may also be available for sale.

Any adult may bid $2.00 Registration Fee 10 days to pay Children under 12 not allowed on premises. No Deposit Required No-Fault Automobile Insurance Identification Card will be required to register the vehicles. (Public Act 70-577, effective January 1, 1980). The State Surplus Retail Stare will be open and will have typewriters, adding machines, tires, clothing, bicycles, and miscellaneous office furniture far sale. The Retail Stare will be open from 8:30 a.m.

te 1:30 p.m. THl UTAH STOU WIU ACCIPT CASH ONI NO CHICKS. Les Curnow John W. Otterbeln State Auctioneer Deputy Commissioner Cylinders Play it safe! Leaking master ior wheel cylinders cause brake failure! Replace with EIS Brake Parts. Automotive LOCATIONS McCALLUMS 21SPASCONEST.

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It was a clean slide." "I could see it in his eyes when I was coming in on him," said Lansford, who returned to the lineup after missing three games because of an injured right elbow; "I vowed I'll never have another drink because of my high blood pressure," Texas manager Don Zimmer said after the loss. "But I think if I ever was going to have one, tonight would be the night." For the Red Sox, however, the game was another sweet one-run victory. Atop the Eastern Division at 14-7, they own an 8-3 record in one-run games this season. Tony Perez got Boston going with a solo homer in the second inning, his first of the year and 358th of his career to tie Yogi Berra. The Red Sox jumped ahead 2-0 on a sacrifice fly by Gary Al-lenson after a single by Stapleton and a double by Glenn Hoffman.

Trailing 4-1, the Rangers scratched back against Boston starter Bob Ojeda and reliever Bob Stanley. Texas knocked out Ojeda in the fifth with two runs and sent the game into extra innings when Johnson stroked a two-out, run-scoring single in the ninth off Stanley. BOSTON Although it won't appear in today's boxscore, Carney Lansford's in-your-face, takeout slide took out the Texas Rangers Saturday at Fenway Park. "I was right on top of him. I knew I was going to get him," Lansford said of his collision with Rangers second baseman Bill Stein in the bottom of the 12th inning.

Tumbling to the ground, Stein hurried and threw the ball low past first baseman Lamar Johnson and into the Red Sox dugout. Dwight Evans and Wade Boggs trotted home with the runs which gave the Red Sox a 6-5 triumph. After Texas went ahead, 5-4, in the top of the 12th on an RBI single by Stein, Boston began its game-winning rally with an Evans single. Texas reliever Steve Comer retired Jim Rice on a fly ball, but Boggs stroked a single to center. Danny Darwin relieved Comer and was greeted with an infield single on an 0-2 pitch by Lansford.

With the crowd of 32,763 clapping in unison, Dave Stapleton bounced a slow roller to shortstop Buddy Bell, who threw to Stein for the forceout. Bell started the game at third base but moved over to short. But then came Lansford, spikes flashing and dirt flying. "I'm not sure where Lansford was," Stein said. "All I know is my face was in the dirt when I 424 Homestead Ave.

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