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...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 got it," he said with a grin. Across the way a gnarled old man with a bat on his shoulder stooped over an imaginary home plate while a pitcher grooved a hardball precious inches away. Near by, Chet Brewer, 74, pitching ace for the Kansas City Monarchs, was telling how Luis Tiant Sr., who pitched for the Cuban Stars with the same herky-jerky motion that...
...Cultures; Martin Gardner bridges them. His classics, Relativity for the Million and The Ambidextrous Universe, make physics lucid to the layman; The Annotated Alice has become the standard guide to Wonderland. In addition he has published exegeses on poetry as diverse as The Ancient Mariner and Casey at the Bat. Yet no matter how wide he ranges, one subject has preoccupied the polymath since he began writing 35 years ago: the dangers and delights of pseudo science...
...hell trying to be a hero and nobody will even bat an eye. Nobody will even hear you fall--unless you happen to fall right on top of them. And even then they'll just arrest you for breaking their own, stupid little necks...
...came true. When the game was resumed in Pawtucket last week, it took only 18 minutes to finish. Koza hit a bases-loaded single in the bottom of the 33rd to drive across the winning run. At least 13 records were set in the game, and Koza's bat (he was 5 for 14) will be enshrined at Cooperstown, N.Y. Said Koza: "I guess this is the only way I'll make it to the Hall of Fame...
...Harvard it is okay to be a gay professor but it requires discretion. They cannot vocally support the gay community without jepordizing their careers." At the law school, sympathetic administrators smoothed the way so that the non-discrimination policy could pass without a hitch. "Some administrators went to bat for us," Fleming says...