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...Similarly, a baseball outfielder is expected to hold trapped balls aloft just as if they were caught. In baseball, overt cheating -- scuffing balls, corking bats -- brings only winks, while the real appreciation is reserved for breaches in the spirit of sportsmanship and fair play. Billy Martin waited for George Brett to hit a homer before objecting to the pine tar on his bat. The old Brooklyn pitcher Clyde King used to twist his cap slightly askew in hopes that the base runner on first would think he was glancing over. King got the idea from wearing two left sneakers...
...blind and deaf person who reads lips with a yellow-highlighting marker. But he was too much of a Brian-two-note--varying incessantly and to no great effect on such tired themes as polyester leisure seats and mobile homes--and couldn't capture the audience. Master of Ceremonies Brett Butler tried hard, but was undistinguished. Many of her lines were no better than this one she told to a patron in the front row: "That is some tan you have there--we're talking melanoma city...
Programming is so important that a New Age breed of crystal therapists has sprung up to teach the uninitiated how to harness their rock power. Brett Bravo, 54, who was raised a strict Methodist in Texas, left organized religion in l975 to follow her "evolutionary spiritual path" to Solana Beach, Calif., where she conducts weekly seminars on how to program crystals. In a $45 one-day session, participants learn to cure ailments, erase negativity and recharge energy stores. "The way the stones heal," claims Bravo, "is by man's electrical field combining with the crystal's electromagnetic field. This affects...
...opening match, Greg Lee (usually number eight, but playing at number four against the Cadets) smashed Army's Brett Wiggs, 18-16, 15-4, 15-8 to start the rout for the Crimson...
Second thoughts seem to have been written into his contract: Jackson is entitled to buy his way out of baseball and into football next July. "But I'm having too much fun for second thoughts," he says. "George Brett, Willie Wilson and Hal McRae rag me all day long." Since the football games have begun, he has been following the fortunes of contemporaries like the Los Angeles Raiders' naval attache Napoleon McCallum. But he feels no pangs. "I'm glad it's over and sad it's finished," Jackson says with a soft laugh...