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...guided the Dodgers, in Brooklyn and then in Los Angeles, to seven National League titles and four World Championships; of heart disease; in Oxford, Ohio, near the sharecropper's farm where he was born. Alston, who struck out in his only major league turn at bat in 1936, won more than 2,000 regular-season games. During his career he steadied such future Hall of Fame members as Jackie Robinson, Duke Snider, Sandy Koufax and Don Drysdale, and was named to the Hall himself last year. He had always signed one-year contracts for the job he considered...
...with the nature of runaway races, but none of them seems quite as considerable now as he did in the spring or even last year. Trammell hit over .300 but missed more than 20 games without being missed tremendously. Whitaker slipped slightly both in the field and at bat. Lemon actually got conked on the head by a fly ball. Though he had 30 home runs, Parrish's average was under .240. For Most Valuable Player, Anderson has nominated Reliever Willie Hernandez, who had 32 chances to save games, and saved...
...roast retired Pitcher Paul Splittorff and informed Third Baseman George Brett, "You may have to give me a part of your playoff share because I'm going to beat Minnesota." A few nights later, with two outs in the ninth inning of a tie game, Quirk came to bat for the first time and hit a home run that crushed the Twins...
Humanity itself is here an endangered species. One story introduces a cheap carnival girl whose "act" requires her to spend all day being licked by a bat; another implicitly compares the hero's lickerish mother to a pleasure-loving lizard; a third likens the members of a platoon to an anteater, a peafowl, a civet cat and other zoo dwellers. To make so beastly a world bearable, an author should ensure that disgust is in his characters' minds and not in his own. At this Boyd does not invariably succeed. In the title story, for example...
...last year, her roommate, Marvin Pancoast, walked into a nearby police station and confessed. The homosexual Hollywood hanger-on, who had moved in with Morgan after she lost a $5 million palimony suit against Bloomingdale two years ago, said he had bludgeoned her with her son's baseball bat to "help her sleep." But when his trial opened last month, Pancoast, 34, pleaded not guilty. His lawyers accused unknown persons of killing Morgan to suppress videotapes that allegedly showed her having sex not only with Bloomingdale, a Reagan adviser and former head of Diners Club, but also with several...