Word: barres
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Barr & Barr would not comment on the job for this story...
Keller says the speed of the renovations was one of the main factors in determining which changes would be made. She says the six groups hired by Barr & Barr Contractors will work on the project simultaneously so all the rooms can be completed before new tenants arrive in September...
EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENTS: Donald J. Barr, Donald M. Elliman Jr., Robert L. Miller...
...Barr is a closed-in, silent man whose quotes run to "I had it all the way," or "It was just a question of timing." Ask a hawk how it flies. But because Barr is unexplainable, there's a lot of time for lazy, raunchy, cow- flopping baseball talk. Ricky Falls, a black outfielder who plays alongside Barr and is as much of a friend as the phenom can accept, tells most of it. Falls and the rest of his teammates, except for Barr, lead their league in dalliance with the baseball annies who show up in the team hotel...
...pugnacious, team-wrecking Billy Martin caricature. Moses Yellowhorse, the lunatic fireballer, haunts the ball park, and so does Eileen the Bullpen Queen, an annie so astonishingly trashy that the players remember her name. The novel flows with lovely nonsense, summer after summer, until it is necessary to give Barr a slump so that he can recover and win the Series one more time. Author Baker slumps here, just a bit, then finds his groove again...