Word: bret
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...Royal Bret Saberhagen was the monkey maker. Cardinal Starter John Tudor, the humorless winner of Games 1 and 4, reacted to being knocked out in the third inning by slugging an electric fan with his pitching hand and, against all odds, finishing the season in stitches. Besides surrendering the first ten days of next year and a fine of $500, Andujar can also expect a bill from the Royals for a battered toilet. It turned out the Cardinals had feet of porcelain...
...victory gave the Cardinals a 2-0 led in the best-of-seven Series, which now goes to St. Louis for game three tomorrow night. Cardinals right-hander Joaquin Andujar, 21-12 during the season, will face right-hander Bret Saberhagen, 20-6, the 21-year-old ace of Kansas City's staff...
...Rightfielder Reggie Jackson, as sure as the Chicago Cubs play in daylight, the California Angels play in twilight. Their manager, Gene Mauch, is the most respected one never to win a pennant. Ahead of the Royals by one game in the West division, the Angels faced downy-cheeked Righthander Bret Saberhagen first, and at the end he dismissed Jackson with three called strikes. "I looked at Reggie and thought of the Dodgers' Bob Welch striking him out in the World Series. It's a good feeling to strike out Reggie Jackson." By doing so, Saberhagen, 21, became the fifth most...
This decidedly offbeat first novel offers a mixed message to all those who might be worried about contemporary teenagers. On the one hand, the example of its author looks hopeful: Bret Easton Ellis, 21, is a student at Bennington College and obviously an enterprising and successful young man. But the story he tells about members of his generation is lurid in the extreme. Most readers who are not helplessly zonked on sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll will finish Less Than Zero with the conviction that they have not fretted over the current condition of young people nearly enough...
...Ford Coppola hired the author to write the script for his $45 million movie The Cotton Club; and the public library of Albany, New York State's capital and the author's home town, proclaimed a William Kennedy Day to honor its first native literary star since Bret Harte...