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Seraw, who worked as an Avis airport shuttle-bus driver, lived near an apartment where the White Pride group were drinking one night, and was attacked with two friends while returning from a party. A skinhead named Kenneth Mieske came up behind Seraw with a baseball bat and struck his head "as hard as you'd hit a center field ball," Dees told the jury last week. Then Mieske stood over the fallen Seraw and hit him repeatedly, splitting open his skull...
When you come to bat, dare to swing against Oakland native Dave Stewart, the game's most feral competitor, whose "death stare" would spook Cyclops. Or face Bob Welch, the first American League pitcher since 1968 to win 26 games in a season. Try hitting a grounder through the A's stingy infield. And if you hope to rally, ponder the presence of ace reliever Dennis Eckersley, who has issued only seven bases on balls in two years. You can run but you can't walk...
Baseball's best team can dazzle you with speed, numb you with power, destroy you with their arrogance -- and that's just when Rickey Henderson is at bat. Add the glower of Jose Canseco and the death stare of Dave Stewart, and you have a team that looks as tough as it plays. This October, the A's know that their true opponents will not be the Pirates or Red Sox or Reds, but the ghosts of great teams past...
...Harvard Business Review, Chrysler chairman Lee Iacocca argues, "If an American CIA agent quit one day and went to work for a foreign intelligence service the next, we'd call it treason. But when American trade officials . . . defect in droves to the Japanese, we don't even bat...
...salary of $30,000, had nowhere to go last year when the landlord abandoned the apartment building in which the family lived. When police declined to drive away crack users who had set up a drug den in the building's basement, Olmo picked up a baseball bat and chased them out himself. He then bought walkie-talkies with his own money and started a tenants' patrol, which has since expanded into a neighborhood watch committee. Next he persuaded his neighbors to lease the building from the city and manage it themselves. "We've tried to improve the neighborhood...