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Show Detroit: Good Pitching counted a dark horse in the American League East all year. CAMPBELL, of course, wants to give fans another contender. It's been eight or nine years. Yet he has fielded interesting teams; they have drawn fans. (Only a new safety regulation, limiting the capacity capac-ity of Tiger Stadium, has pre vented higher attendance on big days in recent years.) W hat an irony if the strike cools Detroit's momentum! W ho would have guessed in March that when it came, the Tigers would have the leading winner in the American League (Jack Morris who. alone on (he staff, is allowed to call his own pilches)? By PETE FRITICHIE Jim Campbell, president of the Detroit Tigers, told this writer in March the Tigers would be in the pennant race this year if Sparky Anderson got good pitching. Few believed be-lieved the Tigers' pitching was good. IN THE weeks before the strike, Detroit was getting exceptionally ex-ceptionally good pitching, so much so that even though the Yankees won something like nine straight, the Tigers gained on them and when the strike came, the Bengals were only y2 back! Sparky and Roger Craig, new Tiger pitching coach, w ho is calling the pitches, have done a job, and proved Jim Campbell right. The Tigers scored more runs than any team in the Majors in 1980. If this pitching holds up, Spar-ky's Spar-ky's gang might have to be |