On this day: Giants spring training phenom writes another chapter in his legend

(AP Photo) Oakland Athletics owner Charlie O. Finley speaks to the media at Baseball Commissioner Bowie Kuhn’s office in New York in this June 17, 1976 photo. Kuhn called a hearing because Finley planned to sell All-Stars Rollie Fingers, Vida Blue and Joe Rudi. Kuhn blocked the sales ruling that Finley was unfairly stripping the team Randy Elliott, everybody’s favorite non-roster invitee, whacked an RBI double as the Giants beat the Indians in a spring training on March 23, 1977, 43 years ago.

Just another day under the desert sun? Hardly.

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Elliott was a young man with an old body come the spring of 1977. Drafted by San Diego in 1969, he spent parts of the 1972 and ’74 seasons with the…