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...burden on the voices of its stars. Derin Altay, who replaced Patti LuPone on Broadway, sings vibrantly. Waving her arms, confidently striding across the stage, she demands the audience's attention. She also displays a not-too-subtle wit, fashioning gestures more reminiscent of a Billy Martin-Reggie Jackson ballpark feud than an exchange between a First Lady and a cabinet official. But of course much of Eva's mystique results from such apparent contradictions--the earthiness and the bejeweled regality, the saintliness and the promiscuity...
...Earl Weaver, the bow his last at a major league ballpark, at least for now. After 15 wildly successful seasons, he was stepping down from the Orioles' helm. Hesitatingly, uncharacteristically, Weaver was basking in one final warm moment of adulation, before watching his name drift off to the Street and Smith's yearbook of history, with all the other Bobby Thompsons, Monte Irvins, and Red Schoendists of baseball lore. It was at once a touching and thrilling moment--for even the most hardbitten of Yankee or Brewer fans. And for the Oriole fan, it almost was like watching a slice...
Professor Derek Bell, who taught the course before he left the Law School, said last week that his course usually attracted about 40 to 90 people, and that boycott or no boycott, the 59 people that enrolled in this year's course "is definitely in the ballpark...
Fans began paying their way into the ballpark, if only to see what Turner would do next, but the Braves were still mired in the swamp. After they lost 16 in a row in 1977, Turner furloughed the manager, put on a uniform and supervised the 17th loss himself (to Pittsburgh...
...years before his death last January, Smith lost some of the hop on his high hard one. Unable to get out to the ballpark as much, he tried to compensate with guile and memory. By then most of the old sports mob-Joe Louis, Knute Rockne, Grantland Rice and the incomparable saloonkeeper Toots Shor-had been written up on the obituary page. Smith's own goodbyes, collected in To Absent Friends, are enough to make an umpire cry. One of the most poignant was composed for the sportswriter John Lardner: "This is a loss to the living, to every...