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...Thompson job. And Rice was expected to do well--he won the Triple Crown in the International League last year. It's only been one season, but there's always a Lou Gehrig, even when he's a different and incomparable star in the same sky that holds Babe Ruth...
...Arrogant and aloof, Paley is an absentee executive who vacations sometimes for months with his exquisite wife Barbara ("Babe"). As a result, CBS is "rudderless," without any real sense of direction...
Prose-Colored Glosses. In between such revisionist histories, Nice Guys Finish Last provides a series of fascinating and hilarious reminiscences, ranging from his locker-room wrangle with Babe Ruth to Bobby Thomson's shot heard round the world. But essentially the book is a series of prose-colored glosses aimed for fans rather than readers...
...rate, Jim Rice has been the Lou Gehrig of the Red Sox this season, an over-shadowed second fiddle to Lynn's Babe Ruth. Winner of the minor league Triple Crown last year with Pawtucket he was expected to be the real star, and in a Lynnless summer he would have been. As it stands, he's hitting almost ...300, and is third in the league in RBIs. Beginning the season as a designated hitter, he's recently moved to left field and has been fielding well...
Died. Robert Moses "Lefty" Grove, 75, fireballing Hall-of-Fame pitcher for the Philadelphia Athletics and Boston Red Sox from 1925-41; of an apparent heart attack; in Norwalk, Ohio. With his searing fastball, Grove regularly humiliated the most feared batters of his day, including Babe Ruth, whom he held to just nine home runs in ten seasons. Grove's two-season peak of 59 wins and only nine losses in 1930-31 remains unequaled, and so, for that matter, does his sizzling temper. Lefty often loudly chewed out teammates as "hitless wonders" after close losses, or "butterfingered s.o.b.s...