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...evening, Bruce and I played a little tennis with Barry and Mike-other old friends-then enjoyed a cookout at Bruce?s place. Next morning I breakfasted with Mom, then drove back to Westchester. The weekend before last, there was that neighborhood party, followed by the summer fulcrum: the All-star break. I thought the several Sox acquitted themselves nicely in the not-very-interesting game. Tito managed about as well as he has since joining the club. Save some of that, Terry...
DIED. MICKEY OWEN, 89, All-Star catcher of the 1930s and '40s best known for an infamous play that helped the New York Yankees defeat the Brooklyn Dodgers in the 1941 World Series; in Mount Vernon, Mo. In the ninth inning of Game 4, Owen dropped a third strike against the Yanks' Tommy Henrich that would have ended the game and given the Dodgers the win. Instead, the Yanks went on to win 7-4 and took the series 4 games...
...because he habitually began his seasons at about the same speed as the news departs Missouri, Leonard was never called to any All-Star games. Away at his quickest pace in May 1983, the invincible-looking pitcher with the pirate-red mustache was dispatching a routine strike to Cal Ripken of Baltimore when Leonard's left knee (his landing leg) imploded and he disappeared. As sport usually calculates these things, this scarcely qualified as tragedy, even when lengthy surgeries and lost summers followed one after the other. Besides the memory of nearly 2,000 honorable if unheralded innings, Leonard...
...PESKIN; of kidney disease; in Herzliyya, Israel. Darting into seemingly unreachable spots, he captured such indelible images as Ben Hogan, left, wielding a 1-iron at the approach to the 18th hole at the 1950 U.S. Open and Joe DiMaggio finishing his grand swing at the 1949 All-Star game...
...addition to being voted Most Outstanding Offensive Player by her teammates, she was reinstated to the first team All-Ivy, named Academic All-District, and voted onto the ECAC Division I All-Star team...