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...injury. Had Clark remained healthy, the new Yankee would have had a shot at the major league record of 170 walks, which Babe Ruth set in 1923. Clark definitely would have broken the National League mark of 148, which is shared by a former Houston Astro and a former Brooklyn Dodger. Take three points for each sharp-eyed hitter you can name. Six points...
When New York State Supreme Court Justice Lewis Douglass sent convicted Drug Dealer Agapito Lopez up the river to prison last year, he noted that $440,000 had been found in Lopez's Brooklyn apartment. That was merely cash on hand: in addition, the district attorney's office claims, Lopez owns three houses in New York, a car dealership, and several apartments in his native Puerto Rico. Last week Judge Douglass decided to redistribute some of Lopez's assets. He ordered the dealer to hand over more than $2 million in restitution to New York City's drug-rehabilitation programs...
Because of his remarks, Campanis--a teammate of Robinson's on the old Brooklyn Dodgers--may have done more for baseball, and for minorities, than he did in his numerous jobs in baseball. Campanis' remarks shocked and outraged the sporting world. Baseball Commissioner Peter Ueberroth vowed to do something about it and set up a commission to see to it that Blacks and other minorities got a fairer shake in baseball...
...baseball encourages, maybe even requires, extreme partisanship. That's because baseball is a family sport as much as it is a regional one. It's not unusual to discover Tigers fans in California, Cubs fans in Washington or Brooklyn Dodgers fans...
...publicity has been orchestrated by Brawley Lawyers Alton Maddox and Vernon Mason, veterans of New York City's race-drenched politics, and Pentecostal Minister Al Sharpton, a rabble-rouser from Brooklyn who calls New York Governor Mario Cuomo a racist and has likened State Attorney General Robert Abrams, special prosecutor in the case, to Hitler. Sharpton even contends that the assault is part of a racist plot linked to the Irish Republican Army...