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...record books, the 1986 batting race will always list Boggs five points ahead of Mattingly. But in the guts and class department, Boggs can't even carry Mattingly's bat...

Author: By John Rosenthal, | Title: A Batting Champion | 10/7/1986 | See Source »

After a Jim Rice fly out, Don Baylor knocked abroken-bat single to center to drive home two moreruns and effectively seal the Red Sox victory...

Author: By Jonathan Putnam, | Title: Red Sox Clinch Division; Browbeat Blue Jays, 12-3 | 9/29/1986 | See Source »

...incoming shipments of cocaine and other drugs. Partly at the urging of Vice President George Bush, the Army, Air Force and Navy have provided about $21 million worth of operational and maintenance support, including high-tech electronic detection equipment on loan to the Bahamian government as part of "Operation Bat." This was a three-year-old effort to intercept drug smugglers on ships and in aircraft. U.S. military maneuvers in the Caribbean are often used to target suspected drug smugglers, tracking them until civilian police or the Coast Guard can make an arrest. In one such sweep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Striking At the Source | 7/28/1986 | See Source »

Many a Western legend was born over whisky and roulette at the Crystal Palace Saloon in Tombstone, Ariz. Wyatt Earp, who took part in the famed shootout at the O.K. Corral (just two blocks away), gambled there. Doc Holliday and Bat Masterson came for serious drinking, while upstairs Pioneer Surgeon George Goodfellow removed bullets from slow-moving cowboys. Despite harrowing moments and hard times, the saloon is still in business and is now up for sale. The asking price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Real Estate: Put Up Half a Million, Pardner | 7/14/1986 | See Source »

...Disney canon. Otherwise it's business and pleasure as usual. Keen-witted Basil of Baker Street and his colleague Dr. Dawson search for a girl mouse's father, a toymaker abducted by the evil rodent genius Professor Ratigan. The movie's scene-stealer is a peg-legged bat named Fidget, who gets laughs when someone stomps on his foot ("My only foot!"). Later Basil and Dawson are trussed up on Ratigan's killer mousetrap, a Rube Spielberg device that jump-starts the filmmakers' ingenuity and accelerates the plot toward its nifty climax. Nothing as weighty as the art of animation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Walt's Precocious Progeny | 7/7/1986 | See Source »

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