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...afternoon before the baseball strike, Kansas City third baseman George Brett rose from a card game in the Royal locker room in Toronto. He was asked to comment on the impending work stoppage...
...essentials. They speak for 15 to 20 minutes in the morning and again at lunchtime. Reagan approves a few appointments, mostly routine and obscure, and makes a few phone calls (last week to Transportation Secretary Drew Lewis on the air-controllers' strike, and to Philadelphia First Baseman Pete Rose on his breaking Stan Musial's National League record for total hits). That is about the extent of Reagan's workday...
...were back together again in Ashland, Ky. (pop. 29,000), for the third annual reunion of the Negro Leagues. It was the first time that some of them had seen one another since the old days, and they had a lot of catching up to do. The splendid second baseman Piper Davis fired a ball across the lot, popping it in a mitt loud enough to wake the entire motel. Davis, who managed Willie Mays when he played for the Birmingham Black Barons, had turned 64 this year and was obviously pleased with himself. "Boy, I still...
...played between the lines, not in the offices of lawyers and agents. Willie Mays, now 50, was a 15-year-old centerfielder for the Birmingham Black Barons when tie had his first and only confrontation with Paige: "I hit a double off him and he went to the first baseman and says, Who is that young fellow?' Then Satch says, and I heard this, 'Let me know when he comes back up.' I come to the plate next time and the first baseman says, There he is.' Being 15, I'm not sure what...
...shameful era of segregated baseball, the biggest loser was the game itself, which was deprived of these great players. That much was clear as they talked into the night, savoring past glories. "We had wonderful times out there, we most certainly did," said Buck O'Neil, first baseman for the Kansas City Monarchs. "Don't feel sorry for nobody you see here. They could play the game as well as anyone who ever played. I don't care how far they go today. However high George Brett goes, or however far Reggie Jackson hits the ball, these...