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...former first baseman and broadcaster will succeed A. Bartlett Giamatti when the current president relieves departing Baseball Commissioner Peter Ueberroth in April. "Bill was hired because he was the best man," Ueberroth said. Insisted Los Angeles Dodger President Peter O'Malley, who chaired the search committee: "Race did not play a factor." Still, the pressure baseball has been feeling is well known...
...academic, not an athletic, scholarship to Hiram College and interrupted premedical studies for a notable career in baseball that culminated in a $300,000 announcing job with the New York Yankees. It is a pleasing fact that several other black candidates for the league presidency, including former Cincinnati second baseman Joe Morgan, were too prosperous in business to consider the wage. In fact, White is taking an estimated...
...large man but a nimble first baseman in his 13 years in the major leagues, White seven times won the Gold Glove, which signifies pre-eminence at a position. In his happiest period, from 1959 through 1965 with the St. Louis Cardinals, he hit as much as .324 and regularly managed 20 home runs and 100 runs batted...
...their triglycerides into body tissues, the carriers get progressively smaller, denser and proportionately more cholesterol-rich, ultimately becoming particles of LDL. The LDLs are then pulled out of the bloodstream by special protein receptors on the surface of cells. "These receptors reach out and grab cholesterol like a first baseman catching a ball thrown by a shortstop," says Dr. Michael Brown of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, who, with his colleague Dr. Joseph Goldstein, won a Nobel Prize in 1985 for discovering LDL receptors. What happens to excess LDLs that are not taken up by cells? Under normal...
Despite his usefulness to the football team, baseball is the number one sport for Kehler, who was an all-country and all-area pitcher and second baseman in his last two years of high school...