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When Cooper has received exposure in the past, he has often been over-shadowed. Traded away from first-magnitude stars Lynn, Rice and Yaz in Boston, his first-base play in Milwaukee has not received the all-star consideration it has merited because of California's Carew...
...after an early season ankle injury, Brett has been on a batting tear that has lifted the Royals to the best record in baseball (78 games won, 44 losses) and a formidable 15½-game lead over the rest of the American League's Western Division. After the All-Star break in early July, shell-shocked pitchers watched him go on a 30-game hitting streak, hit safely in 39 of 41 games and compile a phenomenal .467 average for the period. He swings for singles, not for the fences, but in just 87 games has 91 runs batted...
...marriage made in heaven, or at least in the misty regions high over Dodger Stadium and the Hollywood TV studios. Husband Steve Garvey, 31, was the All-Star first baseman for the Los Angeles Dodgers, a player noted for his clean-living dedication to baseball and his zealous devotion to good causes. Wife Cyndy, 30, was the sleek co-host of the highly rated AM Los Angeles TV show...
...injured reserve trick this year? You know, letting Rupert Jones and Oscar Gamble sit out the first half of the year with "ailments" (ha) while All-Around-The-Town Bobby Brown, Jim LeFebvre and Dennis Werth caught everyone by surprise with their enthusiastic hustle and snappy bats. With the All-Star break behind us, George the S. has resurrected vets Jones and Gamble, who, fresh from Caribbean vacations, will add their well-known offensive talents to those of Jackson, Randolph, Nettles, Watson and Spencer...
Sounds rather like a Soviet football team: the Moscow Virtuosos. But what an all-star lineup. These Virtuozy Moskvy are 25 top musicians, organized into a chamber orchestra 18 months ago by Violinist Vladimir Spivakov, 35. World-renowned virtuoso himself, Spivakov alternates between bow and baton to direct his skillful charges with intensity and impishness: "Let's not be bulldozers," he will grin as the tempo speeds up during rehearsal of a Vivaldi passage. The virtuozy were the hit of Moscow's Russian Winter Festival and will play for Olympic audiences this summer. Spivakov would like to bring...