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First, Smith's lead-off batter in the seventh rapped a single to center field. Two outs and two errors later, the hosts had the bases loaded against Harvard pitcher Lee Polikoff...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Batswomen Smother Smith in Eighth, 2-0 | 4/10/1987 | See Source »

Alas, computer simulations are never like the real game. Any hacker who writes a baseball program that would allow any team--two runs back in the bottom of the ninth inning with two outs and two strikes against the batter--to go on to victory would be called an idiot. Probability and statistics said the Mets were losers...

Author: By Evan O. Grossman, | Title: If Only the Series Were a Simulation ... | 10/29/1986 | See Source »

...looking back, I'll remember this summer as a time of near-perpetual happiness. I'll forget many of the individual games, but I'll remember innings here and home runs there and where I was when Roger Clemens struck out batter number...

Author: By Jessica Dorman, | Title: A September to Remember | 9/30/1986 | See Source »

...Cuomo style is a mixture of warmth and wit. He is simpatico. As a reporter embarks on a question, Cuomo yells out, "I deny it! I deny it!" He describes something that irks him as "just a walnut in the batter of eternity." In the midst of a conversation Cuomo is having with an elderly woman from Queens, his press secretary, Martin Steadman, sneezes while she is talking. "That's a Yiddish sign," she says, "that the person talking is telling the truth." Cuomo turns to Steadman: "Next time, see if you can sneeze while I'm talking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What to Make of Mario | 6/2/1986 | See Source »

...Lunch, finally, at Chianti, a Melrose Avenue favorite of Molly's. Her usual cuisine is less fastidious: hash browns, fried chicken strips with an orange-whip drink and, a Ringwald special, catsup-drenched onion rings from which the onions have been eviscerated--fried batter au Heinz. Today, though, she orders sliced tomatoes with vinaigrette and char-grilled chicken over shoestring potatoes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Well, Hello Molly Ringwald! | 5/26/1986 | See Source »

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