The 1970s were not much better, with the Indians trading away several future stars, including Graig Nettles, Dennis Eckersley, Buddy Bell and 1971 Rookie of the Year Chris Chambliss, for a number of players who made no impact.

The team was managed by Dick Williams, and it had an offense that featured the veterans Steve Garvey, Garry Templeton, Graig Nettles, Alan Wiggins, plus the new, young star Tony Gwynn, who won his first of eight National League batting championships that year ( he won in 1987, 88, and 89 and from 1994 through 97 ).

They would field eight All-Stars ( manager Dick Williams, Tony Gwynn, Graig Nettles, Rich Gossage, Terry Kennedy, Garry Templeton, Steve Garvey, and La Marr Hoyt ) at the 1985 All-Star Game in Minnesota.

Gwynn, Winfield, Fingers, Gossage, Randy Jones, and Graig Nettles ( 3B, 1984 – 1987 ) are also members of the San Diego Hall of Champions, which is open to athletes native to the San Diego area ( such as Gwynn and Nettles ) as well as to those who played for San Diego teams.

Upon arriving in New York, the number 9 that he had worn in Oakland and Baltimore was worn by third baseman Graig Nettles.

The Yankees won Game 3 on several fine defensive plays by third baseman Graig Nettles, and took Game 4 in ten innings.

The team's offense for the most part was inconsistent, and they were also set back by key injuries to Reggie Jackson and Graig Nettles.

* Graig Nettles ( born 1944 ), former baseball player.

# Graig Nettles: 54 ( Cleveland Indians 1971 )

While playing with the New York Yankees in 1982, Bobby Murcer, Graig Nettles, and Roy Smalley got caught in a bizarre 2-5-3-1 triple play.

# Graig Nettles: 412 ( Cleveland Indians, 1971 )

# Graig Nettles: 410 ( New York Yankees, 1973 )

In one of Bill James ' baseball books, he quoted the Yankees ' Graig Nettles as telling about an at-bat against Fidrych, who, as usual, was talking to the ball before pitching to Nettles.

After the fight apparently died down and order appeared to be restored, Fisk's pitcher, Bill Lee, and Yankee third baseman Graig Nettles began exchanging words and punches, igniting the brawl anew.

On October 2,, he earned the save in the Yankees ' one-game playoff against the Boston Red Sox for the AL East title, entering with one out in the seventh inning and a 4-2 lead following Bucky Dent's home run ; although he allowed two runs in the eighth inning, he held on to preserve the 5-4 victory, getting Carl Yastrzemski to pop up to third baseman Graig Nettles with two out and two men on base in the ninth inning to clinch the division championship.

During the 1978 season, Yankees teammate Graig Nettles quipped that Lyle went " from Cy Young to sayonara.

Ventura also collected his 500th hit that May and won his third straight Gold Glove, while becoming the first AL third baseman with three consecutive 90-RBI campaigns since Graig Nettles ( 1975 – 78 ).

Kelly set a National League record with seven home runs in six consecutive games in 1924, which has since been matched by Graig Nettles, Walker Cooper, and Willie Mays.

* On August 12, 1984, a game between the Atlanta Braves and San Diego Padres turned into what writers Bruce Nash and Allan Zullo later called " one of the worst beanball wars of modern times ", starting with Braves pitcher Pascual Pérez hitting Alan Wiggins with the game's first pitch, followed by four attempts by Padres pitchers to hit Pérez in retaliation, and ending in Braves reliever Donnie Moore hitting Graig Nettles.

Because of bad knees, Cox became the second in a string of four stopgap players between Clete Boyer and Graig Nettles.

That number broke the Detroit Tigers single season record for assists by a 3rd baseman ( previously 389 by Aurelio Rodríguez in 1974 ) and was only 14 short of the all time MLB record for assists by a third baseman ( set by Graig Nettles in 1971 ).

Only five third basemen ( including Graig Nettles, Brooks Robinson, and Mike Schmidt ) have collected more assists in a season than Inge.

The Padres set a franchise record for victories with 92 in 1984, being led by two veterans, first baseman Steve Garvey and third baseman Graig Nettles.

The town is surrounded by wooded hills to its north, east and south, including Buckholt Wood (), The Kymin (), and The Graig (), with more gently undulating terrain to the west.

The Llanishen and Lisvane Hunt had several homes over the years with the hunts most latterly setting off from Llan Farm on Graig Llwyn Road.

During World War II the Royal Observer Corps ( ROC ) observation post stood on the Graig with its clear views over the village and the city of Cardiff.

However, Yankees third-baseman, Graig Nettles, helped to stop the comeback with his defense.

The Why Store was formed in the late 1980s in Muncie, Indiana, when bassist Greg Gardner and guitarist Michael David Smith, both Ball State University students, met up with Indianapolis drummer ( Graig ) Omar Adams.

The Yankees came back with two in the fifth, with Graig Nettles hitting an inside-the-park home run and Willie Randolph lashing a double to right to score Bobby Brown.

The Barry Railway was amalgamated with the Great Western Railway on 1 January 1922, and the station was renamed Pontypridd Graig on 1 July 1924, to avoid confusion with the former Taff Vale Railway station, which had also been named Pontypridd, and which was renamed the same year.

On 10 July 1930, Pontypridd Graig was closed, with its services being diverted to Pontypridd Central, which reverted to its former name of Pontypridd.

The next batter, George Brett, grounded to Graig Nettles, who threw to Randolph at second to force McRae.

It is now managed by Vastly experienced defender who took over as Ponty's player / manager in 2009 after coaching at Graig FC in 2008 and previously spent ten years at Burton Albion and played under Nigel Clough before joining Worcester then Gresley, Allan Davies.

There is also a quarry near the Graig which is now abandoned.

" The name also led to confusion for baseball card companies ; the error-prone inaugural 1981 Fleer baseball card set includes an error card where his name is spelled " Graig " on the front, and " Craig " on the back.

Passenger services along the former Barry line north of Tonteg Junction were diverted via ( also on the former Taff Vale Railway ) and Pontypridd Central from 10 July 1930, and Pontypridd Graig station was closed.

Game 1 started shakily for Tiger starter Jack Morris ( a 19-game winner during the season ), as he surrendered two-out singles in the bottom of the first inning to Steve Garvey and Graig Nettles, followed by a two-run double to Terry Kennedy.

The drop clutch was invented by ragtime drummer Graig Cortelyou.

Jimmy Wilde's birth certificate shows he was born in the Taff Bargoed Valley community of Pentwyn Deintyr ) ( now known as the Graig ), Quakers Yard, Treharris, in the county borough of Merthyr Tydfil but his parents later moved to the village of Tylorstown in the Rhondda Valley when Wilde was twelve years old.

The farmhouse, on the Graig slope overlooking the village, was included in the estate of the Lewis family.

Nearby on Mynydd y Graig are three hill forts, several hut circles and terraced fields that are thought to date from the late Iron Age ; a Bronze Age cinerary urn was uncovered in 1955.

Common land at Mynydd Rhiw and Mynydd y Graig was enclosed by Act of Parliament in 1811, and barley and oats were grown.

The settlement at Y Rhiw was built in a pass between Mynydd Rhiw and Mynydd y Graig, part of a series of hog-back ridges of igneous rock.

Tyn y Graig was built at the beginning of the 18th century, and is constructed of uncoursed boulders.

A southern foothill of Sugar Loaf, Y Graig, was discovered in the 1990s to be the site of prehistoric flint tools dating from the Mesolithic, Neolithic and Bronze Age.

A committee of James Clow ( treasurer ), James Forbes and Skene Graig ( secretaries ) was appointed to collect subscriptions and to take the steps to obtain a church site.

Graig Chapel was demolished in the late 1990s, being replaced by houses.

1918 the Sunday School is still showing on the map under the area name of Vardre close to Mount Pleasant and Graig Felin was known as Aber-Clydach.

Pontypridd Graig railway station was a railway station located in the South Wales valleys town of Pontypridd, on the Barry Railway.

One was just behind the modern day station, known as Pontypridd Graig station and the other at the lower end of the Broadway, which served the Pontypridd to Newport line.