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...Gullett played left field for one batter in 1970; Lemon began his career as a third baseman...
...even more unusual perfect game in 1919, the starting pitcher walked the first batter of the game. Relief pitcher Ernie Shore entered the game, picked the runner off first, and retired the next 26 batters to complete the perfect game. Who was the starting pitcher, and why was he replaced...
...trying out at 45. "All of us can't leave like Carl Yastrzemski or Johnny Bench," he says. "I don't feel like a one-dimensional person, but I just want to play. Pete Rose wants 200 more hits, but I just want to face one more batter, experience that wonderful anxiety one more time, and then one more time after that...
...banks in South Dakota, from which they intended to sell insurance across state borders. Unbowed, the banks have now started pressuring Congress for a legislative change to let their strategy go ahead. Citicorp Vice Chairman Hans Angermueller bluntly says that his company's tactic is "to batter at every barrier at all times." With that kind of zeal behind it, full national banking is probably not far away...
...defined. Women are apparently objecting to whole parts of Reagan's program, and not merely to specifically "feminist" areas. Should the Democrats necessarily see this in their favor? Or should both parties realize that women are now exerting an entirely new form of political strength, a form which might batter a male Democratic President just as harshly as a Republican, and which might move the entire political spectrum bodily leftward? If so, then a true feminist revolution may have started in 1980, when women voted significantly different from men for the first time. Perhaps the real gap may be found...