Dave Kingman

The boos, of course, for Bench simply because Bob Boone of the Phillies is out-hitting Bench by 75 points, and they felt Boone should have been the starting catcher.

Batting seventh, from the New York Mets, his 30 home runs lead the major leagues, right fielder Dave Kingman.

[clapping] Batting eighth, from the Cincinnati Reds, starting his second consecutive All-Star game, shortstop Davey Concepcion.

[clapping] And the pitcher who is warming up in the bullpen, from the San Diego Padres, a 20-game winner last year and a three All-Star Game 16-game winner this season, left-hander Randy Jones.

Greg Luzinski, Prospect Heights, Illinois, left field.

Johnny Bench, Binger, Oklahoma, catcher, Cincinnati Reds.

Dave Kingman, New York, New York, right field.

Hi, I'm Davey Concepcion.

probably right.

It's got to be a tough job being the second-string catcher behind a fellow like Manny Sanguian.

Manny, last winter, they tried to blame him in the outfield in winter ball, but I understand he ran into a wall, got hit by a line drive.

Can you play anyplace else?

Well, I've been asked about the Pirates' chances for winning the series.

You take our ball club that has been a decided underdog since the series winners were announced, and now we lose the first two ballgames in Baltimore and bounce back and take the next two.

And now for the sixth and seventh game, if we need them, I have a young fellow named Bobby Moose and Steve Blass cranking up, and I say we've got to go to Shantzany by because it's a two-out-of-three-game series, and I've got three pretty good chuckers going for me.

And as you've heard, each manager highly confident.

George Foster with 11 grand slam home runs to his credit.

Second as an active... player to Dave Kingman I think the Kong has 12 salami situation you might say you got that right the crowd is grunge fuzzy

now George steps out Have to have George working with Strawberry on how to step out.

George has got a down pat.

It's amazing.

Kingman.

19.

Kingman with 19 leads the National League.

Lynn leads with 15.

Singleton has 14.

Steve Guyby with a single in the RBI.

In the bottom of the first, the Cubs came back with three.

Amazing.

And Kingman?

19.

Kingman with 19 leads the National League.

Lynn leads with 15.

Singleton has 14.

So you want to bunt it to first, where your opponent does not have a defensive player, and it was an excellent bunt.

So with Lamb in scoring position, the hitter will be Ted Sizemore.

Now you follow the line.

and you find the foul pole the line was forced in demand by the fact that Dave Kingman hit a home run that hit up above the foul ball into that overhang a tremendous Ruthenian shot Parrish hits it high enough but certainly not far enough as Garvey goes back and makes the catch one away Fernando Valenzuela, his manager's thoughts about the left-handers pitching in cold weather.

Well, he's pitching a couple of pretty tough days in Montreal early in the year and also in Chicago.

So I don't think that it's going to hurt him, the weather.

that shot wasn't just a home run.

That was a typical King Kong shot.

A real mooner that just sailed off his bat.

in a mighty arc toward left field.

Yeah, like, this was a time when guys weren't...

There was Dave Kingman and Ryan How- or, um, Frank Howard back in the day, right?

Yeah.

Like, there wasn't a whole lot of guys who were 6'7", so he, he, my mentor, my coach at the time was like, "You just put your 6'5"."