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...crew, the days are long gone when a single school's best eight would represent the United States in the Olympics. Harvard was often that school Now the American team is an all-star squad, the best Crimson hopeful may be senior Andy Sudduth. It Harry Parker gets a bid to act as a head or assistant coach for the Games--certainly no new experience for him--he'll find out this month...
Rose is hardly likely to win every vote, even should he have the most hits of anybody who ever played. Someone will disapprove of his hair style or of the way he flattened Cleveland Catcher Ray Fosse in an All-Star game. But Rose will go in on the fly, and Morgan fairly briskly...
...last week's All-Star game, the northern influence was evident from the first sentimental bars of O Canada. The National League lineup was top-heavy with the bright particular talents of the Montreal Expos: the admirable catcher Gary Carter, the ageless hitter Al Oliver, the young speedster Tim Raines, and the man a New York Times poll has found to be the most respected player in the game today, Centerfielder Andre Dawson. Since Willie Mays left, baseball has had a soft spot for centerfielders with all-round gifts. Dawson won the Gold Glove at his position the past...
...American League side, right-handed Pitcher Dave Stieb was the only All-Star from the Toronto Blue Jays, but he started the game and won it. Back when Toronto was a last-place team, just last year as a matter of fact, Stieb was good enough to pitch five shutouts and win 17 games. Now his record is 10-7 with an earned run average of 2.54, but it is misleading to consider him the Blue Jays' only star. Jim Clancy and Luis Leal have been formidable pitchers, and the able hitters include First Baseman Willie Upshaw, Outfielder Lloyd...
...exuberant sportscaster on CBS'S N.F.L. Today, and John Y. Brown Jr., 49, Democratic Governor of Kentucky: their second child; in December. That month Brown will leave office, after his single term, to be succeeded by either Democratic Lieutenant Governor Martha Layne Collins or Republican Jim Bunning, former All-Star pitcher...