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Bush spent five years at Andover, since he lost part of his junior year to a bad flu epidemic. He reached his adult height early, which left him rather gawky when at rest. But he was a graceful first baseman, and he was the agile star center of the soccer team, a team with a proud history at the Phillips Academy. In a pompous book entirely devoted to sports there, it is noted, "Poppy Bush's play throughout the season ranked him as one of Andover's all-time soccer greats." In the 1942 class poll, he ranked among...
Furuya had been agonizing over his negotiations with the team's star players: Randy Bass, a bearded American slugger who led the Osaka-based team to victory in the 1985 Japan Series, and Masayuki Kakefu, a fierce third baseman once known as "Mr. Tigers." The ball club sacked Bass last month after he overstayed his leave in the U.S., where his eight-year-old son was being treated for a brain tumor. Kakefu, whose game had suffered because of injuries, wanted to retire. To make matters worse, the Tigers were at the bottom of their six-team league...
...their curtain calls. Don Sutton, 43, his blond curls flecked with gray, languishes on the disabled list as the Dodgers wonder what to do with a pitcher who needs a retinue of relievers to get him beyond the sixth inning. And Graig Nettles, 43, once a majestic third baseman, hangs on a major league roster by a thread as an occasional pinch hitter for the Montreal Expos...
Kelly also threw out the possibility of second baseman Marty Barrett as a player-manager...
With his hapless team 27 games out of first place and losing as usual, Bresnahan had fired an errant pick-off throw over the third baseman's head. As the runner came home, Dave triumphantly tagged him out: he had held onto the ball while tossing an Idaho potato carved to look like a baseball. Unamused, the umpire ruled that the run had scored. Dave's angry manager got him kicked off the team. Last week Bresnahan, now a real estate salesman, was vindicated. "Gehrig had to hit .340 and play in more than 2,000 consecutive games...