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...York vs. Houston. A titanic tussle! Great glove work by Don Mattingly (his first Series in a noble 13-year career) and, for the Astros, some clutch hits by Yankee reject Andy Stankiewicz. The seventh game was a 1-1 tie after 26 innings, equaling the record set by Brooklyn and Boston in 1920. In the top of the 27th, the Yanks got four runs off late-season call-back Mitch Williams. In the home half of the inning, Houston loaded the bases but had exhausted its roster. Who would come to bat? Finally, a wheelchair appeared on the field...
Coming from, say, a neoconservative, this challenge to the left would be about as surprising as the Pope proclaiming his faith in God. But the Brooklyn-born Genovese, 64, the distinguished scholar-in-residence at Atlanta's University Center, has impeccable leftist credentials. Marxist theory, he readily admits, informed his landmark study of slavery in the American South, Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made. Briefly a Communist Party member, he remained, by his own admission, "a supporter of the international movement and of the Soviet Union until there was nothing left to support." Particularly shocking to Genovese...
...Pictures and, on a miserly budget of $1.3 million, spin a hip variation on it. So Allan Arkush (Rock 'n' Roll High School) picked Shake, Rattle and Rock; Ralph Bakshi (Fritz the Cat) selected Cool and the Crazy; Joe Dante (Gremlins) chose Runaway Daughters; Uli Edel (Last Exit to Brooklyn) took Confessions of a Sorority Girl; William Friedkin (The Exorcist) got Jailbreakers; Jonathan Kaplan (The Accused) chose Reform School Girl; Mary Lambert (Pet Sematary) took Dragstrip Girl; John McNaughton (Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer) opted for Girls in Prison; John Milius (Conan the Barbarian) chose Motorcycle Gang. The only...
...baseball player, Moe Berg belonged in the sock drawer of fame. He began his professional career in 1923 as the third baseman for the Brooklyn Robins and ended it 17 years later as the third-string catcher for the Boston Red Sox. He spent most of his playing days schmoozing and reading in dugouts and bullpens. His lifetime batting average was .243, he had only six home runs, and he was error-prone. If Berg ever stole a base, his latest biography, The Catcher Was a Spy (Pantheon; 453 pages; $24), does not mention...
...Larry Ludwick, the director of infectious diseases at Maimonides MedicalCenter in Brooklyn, said in an interview last weekthat mice can spread a variety of infections...