Word: anaheim
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...their crackerjack young star. Callahan had flown to the West Coast the week before to watch San Francisco defeat the New York Giants, and spent the intervening days interviewing the team. Washed out of San Francisco by torrential rains, the 49ers retreated south to dryer practice fields at Anaheim, and Callahan pursued them there. "I was very lucky," he says. "Coach Bill Walsh is an old friend, and even in the tense days before the championship, with packs of reporters besieging the players, he made sure I had access to them and time with him. And Montana...
Inside, Mr. Ed Hoffman, "the singing usher" from the Angel's Anaheim Stadium and the father of Red Sox shortstop Glenn Hoffman, sings the national anthem accompanied by the muzak of the park organ. Afterwards, Mrs. Eleanor "Stoney" Stone, who the scoreboard calls "a long time Red Sox fan," a mother of nine and a grand-mother of ten, throws out the first ball to Red Sox cathcher Gary Allenson. Someone in the stands yells, "Put her in the bullpen...
After moving from Anaheim to Pittsburgh to New York within an hour, California Angels' first baseman Jason Thompson has learned he may not be going anywhere...
...shortly after the deal was completed, Commissioner Bowle Kuhn announced he was blocking the transaction pending an investigation this morning. The reason for the investigation has not yet been disclosed. Kuhn's edit applies to both Thompson trades, so the .228 hitter will remain--for now, at least--in Anaheim...
...Idaho Falls, Idaho, school book review committee did not make a big splash when it voted, 21 to 1, to ban One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest-in response to one parent's objection to some of the language. It was not much bigger news when Anaheim, Calif., school officials authorized a list of approved books that effectively banned many previously studied books, including Richard Wright's classic Black Boy. And who recalls the Kanawha, Iowa, school board's banning The Grapes of Wrath because some scenes involved prostitutes...