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Moving from the court to the courtroom, MoVaughn, the power hitting Red Sox first baseman and active community leader, was acquitted last week of drunken driving, a charge brought when he crashed his pick-up truck into an abandoned car a foggy early morning in January. Vaughn was within his rights to refuse to take a breathalyzer test that night (planning wisely for the court appearance to follow), and, given the venue of his night out (a Rhode Island strip joint), he did well to apologize to his legions of fans in newspaper advertisements. Luckily, neither Vaughn nor anyone else...
...only a month since Speedster Enos Slaughter of the St. Louis Cardinals, galloping into first base, had spiked First Baseman Jackie Robinson. Jackie, the first avowed Negro in the history of big-league baseball, looked at his ripped stocking and bleeding leg. It might have been an accident, but Jackie didn't think so. Neither did a lot of others who saw the play. Jackie set his teeth and said nothing. He didn't dare...
...answer: just wait. "Helen's an old soul," says her manager and business partner, Connie Tavel, who met Hunt 15 years ago on a women's baseball team. (Typically, Hunt worked so hard honing her skills as a second baseman that at season's end, she was voted "most improved player.") "She was never an ingenue. Now she's growing into her old self. The part of her that kept her from roles at 19 has given her balance and success...
DIED. BUCK LEONARD, 90, Hall of Fame first baseman hailed as the Lou Gehrig of the Negro Leagues; in Rocky Mount, N.C. With flawless glove work and a career batting average well above .300, Leonard anchored the Washington Homestead Grays from 1934 to 1950. "We had our own league, like another world," he recalled philosophically, "and we played like no other league existed...
...Johnson and Orioles owner Peter Angelos have been squabbling since Angelos hired the manager two seasons ago; the feud boiled over when Johnson imposed a $10,000 fine on Roberto Alomar ? and directed the second baseman to pay it to Johnson's favorite charity, on the board of which the coach?s wife sits. Angelos thought that was improper, and has been relentlessly chiding Johnson about it all offseason. The real nettle, of course, may be that Johnson's offseason started a bit earlier than his boss had hoped when the Orioles lost to the Indians, a team they...