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...last Aug. 24, Ronald Salem, 34, white, stopped to purchase a package of cigarettes at a corner store in Columbia Point, a predominantly black housing project in Boston's Dorchester section. As he returned to his car he was slammed across the head with a baseball bat. Surgeons at Boston City Hospital operated in vain; two days later, tests for brain waves showed none. Salem was dead...
...issue arose because for seven days following the attack, Salem's heartbeat and breathing had been sustained by life-support machines; when they were withdrawn, all life signs ended. So the question was whether Salem had been killed by Golston with the baseball bat or had died when all hospital maintenance of his body systems ceased...
Babe Ruth and Yankee Stadium symbolize the all-time greats of the national game [April 26]. Babe Ruth started his career as a pitcher, but in the American League today pitchers never come to bat. This great talent would never have been discovered today. Let's get rid of that "designated hitter" rule and a new great batting talent might be discovered...
Grumbling all the way, gargling his booze, Matthau is better than he has been in years, and all the kids are wonderful, full of spirit and spunk. (Inquires one fearless sad sack of a combative rival: "How'd you like me to stick that bat where the sun never shines?") The movie has some very traditional concerns-about the value of playing as opposed to winning, about trying to achieve a certain minimal dignity-but deals with them lightly and with charm...
Other owners have been complaining for years about Veeck's undignified approach to the game, while busily adopting his zany promotional stunts. It was he who first dotted the baseball calendar with Bat Days, Ladies Days, Bartender Days, Cab Driver Days, Gourmet Days, and Name's the Same Days (everyone with the same name as a member of the team gets in for free). He was the first to install an explosive Scoreboard, stage milking contests and have mock invasions from outer space. His most memorable stunt was sending a midget to pinch hit for St. Louis wearing...