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Former Dodger ace Don Drysdale says batters are seeing the beanball in abundance because of their increased cockiness. After knocking a tater, hitters no longer dutifully jog around the base paths, models of humility. Instead, they stand still, in triumph, while the pitcher slumps on the mound...
...month-old son Daniel. Cash, though, still gets faulted by feminists. Dismissing women's tennis as "junk," he told Woman's Own magazine, "If I played a practice game with ((Boris Becker)) when the women's final was on, we'd have more people watching us." Volleyed back Tennis Ace Pam Shriver: "He seems like someone who is a little narrow-minded and maybe a little dumb." Advantage Shriver, mate...
Stereotypes abound here: the ace pre-med, the social wizard, the musical prodigy. Usually they do not really fit the person they describe...
Roger Clemens is a great baseball player; neither he nor his co-author, ace baseball reporter Peter Gammons, are great writers. But the book's decent enough to read to your children. Imagine a five-year-old Dykstra fan hearing this piece of prose from his hero before bed: "We just said, 'Fuck it.' But it didn't work. Kevin Gross shoved the bats up our asses. We got shutout...
...What has happened is that financial aid money has not kept abreast of the full cost of college tuitions and expenses," says Sarah Melendez, associate director for the Office of Minority Concerns at the American Council on Education (ACE). Because of recessions that have put more minorities beneath the poverty line, she says, today "you have a poorer population trying to pay a higher price with fewer dollars...