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...football and basketball, say, Gale Sayers' and Elgin Baylor's full splendor may be inferred from a single move. But a rooftop homer might have sprung from anyone who ever hit a home run, or from Henry Aaron, who hit 755; and while making one swan dive in the outfield, even Tommie Agee or Ron Swoboda of the Mets is the equivalent of the Giants' Willie Mays. Baseball players plainly cannot be known at a glance. "Every player, good or bad, at one time or other has played like a Hall of Famer and a Hall of Shamer." This...
...reach 4,191, return to 1928 and rendezvous with the roughest competitor in baseball's history, Tyrus Raymond Cobb. Somehow Rose overshot his true generation, and has had to hustle almost a quarter of a century to rejoin a gang of bronze men just like him. "Wagner, Speaker, Musial, Aaron--Ty Cobb." He rattles off the last of the stops he has been hurrying past for years. "Ty Cobb," he says with, wonder. Rose's ten-month-old son is named Tyler only because Carol, his second wife, would not approve Tyrus, though he lobbied passionately. "If I was chasing...
...hits exactly. That Carew, 39, would get the single for California against his old team, the Minnesota Twins, was another wonder of happenstance. But his shorter ration of the day's glory was predictable. When Carew said, "I'm just very glad it's over," the sigh recalled Henry Aaron's relief in 1974 after hitting the 715th home run that bettered Babe Ruth. "Aaron was as good as Willie Mays," Pete Rose thinks, "just not as famous." In the year of Rose's assault on Ty Cobb, Carew took his usual place in the off-light with a practiced...
...reaches the autumnal age of 85 this week, but in every other respect Aaron Copland seems to be basking in an Appalachian spring. To honor the quintessential American composer, public television will broadcast live on his birthday an all-Copland retrospective by the New York Philharmonic, led by Zubin Mehta and Guest Conductor Leonard Bernstein. The special performance will range from Copland's First Symphony (composed in 1928) to a newly orchestrated version of his recent piano piece, Proclamation, a span that delights the still octavely active octogenarian. "It is one of the most interesting programs of my work imaginable...
...case comes to trial. R.J. Reynolds is the sole cigarette manufacturer named in the lawsuit, but tobacco makers are closely following the case. Says Robert Rukeyser, vice president of American Brands, maker of Lucky Strike and Pall Mall: "We take these suits very seriously. We're not complacent." Echoes Aaron Twerski, a law professor at Hofstra University: "The whole world is watching...