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...never mind, nobody was counting up feet. They were counting up Appling's 75 years. As far as anyone could remember, he is the oldest player to hit a home run in even a quasi-major-league game. A surprised Warren Spahn, 61, the former Milwaukee Brave pitching ace who served up the gopher ball, confessed, "I didn't figure Appling could even hit that far." Said Appling, who these days coaches batting for the Atlanta Braves' minor league teams: "I guess these young fellows will listen...
Forgoing Wimbledon for a small island in the Pacific, Argentine Tennis Ace Guillermo Vilas, 29, has chosen a new partner: Princess Caroline, 25, daughter of Princess Grace and Prince Rainier of Monaco. The doubles team started playing, according to Paris-Match, after a tennis tournament in Reno, and were spotted on a flight together from Los Angeles. Since her divorce from Philippe Junot, 42, in 1980, Caroline has reportedly dallied with Robertino Rossellini, son of Ingrid Bergman and the late Italian film maker Roberto Rossellini, and Robert Shriver III, offspring of Sargent and Eunice...
Particularly telling is Angell's explanation of why these executives acted with such vengeance--why personal values, even when jeopardizing long-term economic self-interest were allowed to prevail. M. Donald Grant, general manager of the Mets, when the team lost Seaver, told the 33-year-old ace pitcher that too much money at this age was bad for him. George Steinbrenner, owner of the New York Yankees, said when firing manager Gene Michaels, that he felt like "a father scorned." During the strike, Angell explains that "what is going on here...is the same old psychodrama about American fathers...
...time." Paige (his nickname came from carrying satchels at a railroad depot as a child) estimated that he pitched 2,500 games in the black leagues, won 2,000, including 100 no-hitters, and in one year played 153 games, tailing on 29 consecutive days. Said St. Louis Ace Dizzy Dean, who lost a 1-0, 13-inning exhibition to him: "My fastball looks like a change of pace alongside that little pistol bullet Satch shoots up to the plate." Known for his pinpoint control-and showmanship-Paige could drive five nails into a board with ten pitches. He spent...
...between there's a solid working class, and a few families like the Klingensmiths. "We learned to think critically, we were trained to read a lot: we didn't watch TV" And in a state described on its "Welcome to West Virginia" border signs as "The Closest P'ace to Heaven," a state where a town of 3000 might boast a dozen churches. Klingensmith learned about God, in the backyard with the moss and the grass, and in a relatively liberal Methodist congregation...