Word: barres
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...season, the winner so far is Kevin Baker's first novel, Sometimes You See It Coming. This one ends the way a baseball story should: three and two, two out in the ninth, legend at bat. It starts with a young phenom, a rangy, unsmiling white kid named John Barr, who turns up in the shabby locker room of a Class A team in the West Virginia coalfields. He hasn't played organized ball. He doesn't even own a set of spikes...
...course, since this is a fable, he turns out to be a marvel, a natural, who hits .444 that first season. A couple of years later, as Barr leads the New York Mets to a championship, sportswriters tell themselves that he isn't a better ballplayer than Gehrig, or Mays, or Williams. He couldn't be, could he? Better than DiMaggio? But his teammates know he is. They just don't know why. More than most athletic wonders, baseball skill is hidden, supernatural; just flick your wrists and it's a triple to left...
EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENTS: Donald J. Barr, Donald M. Elliman Jr., Robert L. Miller...
...Barr and Barr, a union firm, was chosen by Harvard Real Estate six months ago from several bidders, according to Demong, and the Corporation gave its authority to spend money on designing the renovation. The Corporation did not approve the $19 million construction budget until yesterday, she said...
...Barr and Barr] has been working with us as well as the architect to make sure that if we design it this way, we can construct it how we want at the price we want," she said. "They made a number of good suggestions--not only how to design the project to maximize living space, but also to make sure to address maintenance issues...