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General manager of the Dodgers through eight World Series, four championships and a relocation from Brooklyn, N.Y., to Los Angeles, Buzzie Bavasi was a fixture in American baseball. Born Emil, Bavasi earned the nickname Buzzie for his high energy, which sustained him in a career that spanned nearly five decades and three major league baseball clubs. Known for his sense of humor, Bavasi also had an enduring passion for the game and maintained that the best way to size up a player was to evaluate his character in addition to his skills. "Get to know the players," he advised later...
...training hard, keeping a serious regimen. For the coffin, I read about an Indian fakir who was buried alive for a month. I thought instead of burying myself under dirt, I'd bury myself under water so everybody could see that you're there. I got a coffin in Brooklyn and I started practicing sleeping in it. I stayed in it for four days on my first shot with just short bathroom breaks. For the full seven days, I needed to fast so as not to use the bathroom. I started to fast eleven days before I went into...
...story might have led: he easily could have fed his mind at Yale Law School and only occasionally nourished his soul with his saxophone. It would have been a carefully balanced life, successful but average.Instead, less than six months after graduating and moving in with some Berklee grads in Brooklyn (he deferred his acceptance to law school), Redman entered the fifth annual Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition for saxophone on a whim—and won. What had once been “an escape” was suddenly business, and Redman the academic was suddenly forced to meet Redman...
This how it probably went down: Somewhere in Brooklyn, Tim Harrington, lead singer/intellectualist of the art-rock band Les Savy Fav, is seeking new levels of post-hardcore indie innocence when he finds himself hung up on a question that has troubled philosophers since time immemorial: “What would wolves do?” Unable to work the issue out through electronically-enhanced crooning alone, Harrington sits down for a TV break (ironically, of course). “South Park” comes on, and Harrington is struck by the savage integrity of the image of an animated...
...long understood that our emotions and our rituals affect the play on the field. So we must replace our negative fears about what is wrong with absolute certainty that this will pass so that our confidence in him can restore his confidence in himself. P.S. In the 1950s, when Brooklyn Dodger first baseman Gil Hodges was in an equally terrible slump, entire parishes prayed for him. And I gave him my St. Christopher's medal blessed by the Pope. The slump dramatically ended. As a seven-year-old I was sure that I had made it happen...