Lenny Randle, a 12-year major league veteran who once punched his manager and also got down on his hands and knees on the infield grass to blow a baseball foul during a game, died Dec. 29. He was 75.
In 1977, EMI canceled its contract with the Sex Pistols, only three months after signing the band. In 1980, singer Georgeanna Tillman Gordon of The Marvelettes died in Detroit after a long illness.