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What happened a few hours later was the legal all-star game of the Lewinsky scandal. Kendall, Starr and Lewinsky's lawyers gathered for the first time in one room for a hearing so private the court clerk would not confirm it happened. The issue at hand was Starr's appeal of a sealed order last month by the lower-court judge Norma Holloway Johnson, who not only admonished Starr for his team's alleged leaks but also ordered him to turn over records of its contacts with the media. The President's lawyer, who had lodged the almost forgotten...
...abandon, which belies the fact that superstardom is his birthright. "I still go out there reckless," Griffey told TIME last week. "That's how I play. I don't know any other way." Which is why so many legions, especially kids, love him: 4.2 million voted him onto the All-Star team this season; 1 million bought a candy bar named after him when it was introduced in 1989--despite the fact that it contained no nougat whatsoever...
...going for--well, he says, his life is still pretty good. His father still lets him call collect. Junior has a son and daughter of his own, and the family spends off-season in Windermere, Fla., near his friend Tiger Woods. When you're hanging with your All-Star Cafe partners, who notices another record...
While Griffey has the potential to hit 62 (he hit 56 last year), the fans haven't been pulling for him in the home-run race the way they have for McGwire. Which is odd, since Griffey is more popular. Even this year he got more All-Star votes from fans than McGwire. He's a better all-around player, more affable, more telegenic, more starlike, younger, hipper and more street than McGwire (though even Dan Quayle is more street than McGwire). Three of McGwire's black teammates refused to comment as to whether the attention to McGwire over Griffey...
Ergo the 1998 Yankees. The wonder of this team was on display two weeks ago at the All-Star game. Not one Yankee had been sufficiently dominant to have been voted by the fans to the eight slots they get to fill on the starting team. The other 22 slots were filled by the American League manager: this year Cleveland's Jim Hargrove. He had to choose at least one player from each of the league's 15 teams. Yet he managed to select five Yankees--no mean mathematical feat...