Word: carbo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...next to an ardent Bosox fan. You'll hear stories of the 1967 squad with Lonborg and Yazstremski, the 1975 squad with Fisk, Lynn, Tiant and pinch-hitter extraordinaire Bernie Carbo and the 1986 squad with Clemens, Boggs, Evans and Barrett...
...Amato, the manager who stood up to the fight mob in the '50s, who defied the murderous Frankie Carbo and helped break the monopolist Jim Norris, died in 1985 at 77 and left Tyson in his will. "More than me or Patterson," says D'Amato's other old champion, the light-heavyweight Jose Torres, "Tyson is a clone of Cus's dream. Cus changed both of us, but he made Mike from scratch." In Brooklyn, Tyson had drawn the absent father and saintly mother, the standard neighborhood issue. "You fought to keep what you took," he says, "not what...
...George Bush, loyalty is refusing to disagree with an incompetent president--loyalty is hiding. For Bill Lee, loyalty is standing up. Shortly before being traded to Montreal in 1978, Lee went on a one-day strike when friend and teammate Bernie Carbo was sold to Cleveland for $15,000. The press and many fans criticized Lee for his walkout, but he stood firm and still defends his actions...
...bequeathed to the sport by the old trainer Cus D'Amato, who died a year ago lost and lonely, three decades after standing up to the cowardly little mobster Frankie Carbo. Maybe lonely is wrong, though Cus never married in 77 years, admitting only one passion. As the legal ward of D'Amato, Tyson was kin to Floyd Patterson, the youngest champion until last week. A Tyson left hook in the second round sent the World Boxing Council's Trevor Berbick bouncing across the ring and almost through the ropes. That made 28 victims in 28 fights, 26 by concussion...
...five-year, $8.4 million contract with the Mets, was clearly uncomfortable as he was asked for the names of other players with whom he had shared cocaine. He cited two former St. Louis teammates: Pitcher Lary Sorensen, 29, who is now with the Chicago Cubs, and Outfielder Bernie Carbo, 38, who retired at the end of the 1980 season...