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June 23, at home vs. Minnesota. Before the game against the Twins, the American League all-star team is named. Oil Can Boyd (6-6, 3.98) is not included. He is enraged and unloads a barrage of fast balls at the new luxury boxes in Fenway Park. He tears a rotator cuff and inadvertantly kills Joe ("I never played for Cincinnati") Morgan when the loveable Sox manager, trying to calm down his excitable player, gets in the way of a pitch...
...show's opening number, Ya Got Me from On the Town, called for an all-star reunion. Four of the five leads in the original -- Comden, Adolph Green, Nancy Walker and Cris Alexander -- spent a day piecing together photos, props, the sound track and their memories. "Jerry put us into certain positions," Comden says, "and we remembered the best we could, from our ancestral bodies or our unconscious. And then, of course, Jerry created more. We didn't want it to stop. Jerry stayed to keep working, and the four of us wandered into the street, clinging, clinging to whatever...
...public sympathized with me, reached out to me," he says, "and even tried to replenish my record collection. I realized how self- absorbed I'd been and started to look at the fans differently. They started to see me too." Because other centers were elected, this week's All-Star game almost went on without him. But when Johnson was injured, Commissioner David Stern ruled that a center could replace a guard, and Kareem was called. This time, the rules were changed to include...
Last week White said, "I don't remember losing to the American League in six All-Star games." His first message to the National League players was simple. "They better not lose my first...
...blowout, but Upward Bound stuffed the predictions. Rockland eked out a last-second win, 64-63. Thereafter, Upward Bound went 11-11 against the best junior colleges in New England. In July at the Amateur Athletic Union National Junior Olympics held in Florida's Dade County, it beat all-star teams from Kentucky and Ohio before finally losing to players from the nation's fourth-ranked junior college...