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Hill is a transplanted Australian with little reverence for the national pastime. He was recently quoted in the New York Times Magazine as telling his executives, "If anybody talks about any dead guys during a broadcast, I'll sack 'em." (Good thing Fox didn't televise Cal Ripken's 2,131st straight game last year: "Cal Ripken has now played in more consecutive games than...anybody.") Hill explains himself: "What I meant when I said that was I didn't want the announcers just to drop names of dead guys without putting them in context. We now have someone going...
...rather moribund marketing of baseball with a series of fresh, wiseacre promos titled "Same Game, New Attitude." They include the Phillies' Lenny Dykstra jumping into a mosh pit, Yankee first baseman Tino Martinez on the couch of a shrink who happens to be a Don Mattingly fan, and Cal Ripken getting razzed by his mailman, who asks, "I don't suppose you've had to deal with any rabid Dobermans at shortstop, Mr. Streak?" Fox will also do a kids' pregame show, In the Zone, to lure future fans whose bedtimes have kept them from seeing the World Series...
...those ball parks have been leveled since the '60s, all in the name of progress, prosperity and Manifest Destiny. Now only four remain to connect fans to the past, to link Lou Gehrig to Cal Ripken. Of those, three have recently been given the kiss of death: Tiger Stadium, Fenway Park and Yankee Stadium. Going, going, gone...
...know what it's like to live without electricity or running water. On the 1.4 acres of Montana woodland that he bought with David in 1971, Ted spent whole winters living on dried root vegetables, some rice and flour and the snowshoe hares he tracked down with his .22-cal. rifle. In the early 1980s, David headed for the desolate Christmas Mountains of West Texas. The cabin he has used for part of each year stands 20 miles from the nearest paved road. Before it was finished, he hunkered down for a while in just a hole...
Actually, the Crimson didn't even give up a run again. The first sacrificial lamb was George Fox, a school in Oregon that Harvard beat 5-0. Then it was Chico State, 11-0, and in the consolation finals Harvard defeated Cal-State San Bernardino, 8-0, punctuated by a homer from junior third baseman Katina Lee that invoked the eight-run "mercy rule...