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There's nothing like a Sunday afternoon when the sun shines brightly and everybody flocks to the ballpark to watch America's favorite pastime...
Although the ten-day prediction was a bit optimistic, Ash was in the ballpark. He gives a day-by-day account of the formation of the opposition Civic Forum, the mass demonstrations in the streets of Prague, and the rapid ascension of playwright Vaclav Havel from dissident to president...
...page can be a pensioner's windfall. "In my day, if you turned down an autograph," Bob Feller says, "the kids would spray ink all over you." These days he gets $7. "Why shouldn't I sell my signature? If I'm on the street or at the ballpark and someone asks for an autograph, no problem. But with these shows, there's money to be made. That's where I charge...
...Paar and Dick Cavett, and, like them, is striving for more substance in his interviews than the thoroughly programmed Carson. He threw Chevy Chase off balance with a question about his draft status during the Viet Nam War and asked Baseball Commissioner Peter Ueberroth about beer drinking at the ballpark. When actor Charlie Sheen alluded to a past run-in with the law, Sajak politely refrained from pressing ahead but at least seemed aware of why. "I wouldn't want to * break a time-honored talk-show tradition and ask a follow-up question," he cracked. What's encouraging...
...need to be sending in names of people whobelong here," Bell said. "We need to be contactingthose people who might be in the ballpark if theyget their package together, while at the same timepushing the schools to do more recruiting...