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...watching. I used to admire baseball players; errant tobacco juice never bothered me. I could chew gum and hit balls through windows just as hard as the next kid on the block. My heroes were Stan Musial, Bob Gibson, and Mickey Mantle. You know the type--all-American boys raised on wholesome farms who battled incredible odds to win lucrative endorsements from coffee and soda empires. They had great nicknames like "Dizzy," "Dynamite," and "Duke." The Yanks were my idols in pinstripes...
Harvard All-American Jim O'Neill closed out the Ivy season with a 13-2 individual record. In his toughest match of the afternoon, O'Neil overcame a 3-1 deficit to Penn's Chris O'Laughlin and took a 5-4 decision...
...tightly knit Bush family, on the other hand, is clearly a source of joy and strength to the Vice President. When the three generations gather at their summer home in Maine, they spill off the veranda like an all-American tableau. Barbara Bush, mother of five, grandmother of ten, helpmate of 43 years, has the expectant look of a First Lady in training, holding the Nancy Reagan gaze before there was a Nancy Reagan gaze...
...greatest individual honor was being named a NISRA All-American, along with Co-Captain Russ Ball. Pandole finished last season with a 5-2 individual record against some of the best players in the nation. Another adjustment for the economics major was getting accustomed to the way squash is played in North America. Pandole had to switch over from a softball to a hardball and play on different size courts...
...addition to being named first team All-State his junior and senior years, he was also on both the Converse All-American and Converse Academic teams, and honorable mention All-American...