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...threat of a lengthy strike looms, the players are attempting to organize their own football league, composed of six all-star teams (one representing each NFL division). The labor force of the NFL wants control over its organization and its own services. At least, that's the threat...
...course he tries to slow it down with a laugh whenever he can. Now and then, when the band strikes up Hail to the Chief, the President leans over to Nancy and says, "They are playing our song." He chuckled to himself, an old sportscaster, that the baseball All-Star game was played without his even knowing. Even that garish glen-plaid suit that rattled European style arbiters brought a guffaw. "Did you see that suit on NBC? I like that suit. And then I saw an NBC shot indoors and that suit gleamed like it was lighted...
...memorable games. You see, Rose is a sentimentalist. "More than any other, that series lifted baseball, showed people how great it could be," says Rose. And Yaz nods: "Without a doubt, it moved people." If 1975 is the point where Rose and Yaz intersect, they also come together at All-Star games, a mortifying subject to American Leaguers after 19 losses in the past 20 games. Though the National League has always been more progressive in matters of race, it seems too simple an explanation to say that the Nationals cornered all the Willies-Mays, McCovey and Stargell...
Yankee Mickey Mantle tells of leaving home in Dallas for the 1967 All-Star Game in Anaheim, Calif., barely arriving in time to run for the batter's box and strike out. He jokes that he was back in Dallas to watch the end of the game on television, to see Perez win it for the National League with a home run in the 15th inning. Mantle starts the story mirthfully but finishes it regretfully. The American League had enough good players, just not enough Pete Roses, hunkered down cheering on the dugout steps even after they were...
...that pretty phrase of Ted Williams'? "After 35, you're on a pass." If this is one of the last seasons for either of the Boys of Indian Summer, it is one of the best for both. And so what if Yaz struck out in the All-Star Game, and so what if it was on a fastball...