Word: carlton
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...hard to tell sometimes. He's not a guy who looks comfortable around attention; in fact he has skirted it all pretty well until now. He stays in suburban St. Louis at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel, alone with Spectravision when not with friends and teammates. McGwire hasn't even done much on the endorsements front--though that cap he keeps wearing at press conferences for the Abbey, a fledgling restaurant in Seal Beach, Calif., has got to be worth some kind of meal--and his few public appearances have been less than stellar: his taped spot at last week...
...week's end, however, there were signs that no matter how much the folks involved want to get along, family squabbles could shatter their best intentions. Evidence emerged last week that the home in which Johnson has been raising Callie hasn't been the most tranquil. Carlton Conley, Johnson's sometime boyfriend and possibly Rebecca's biological father, was convicted of assault and battery in April. Johnson said Conley had shoved her, rammed her car with his truck and in January threatened to shoot her. (Small wonder, then, that last year Johnson obtained a state permit to carry a concealed...
Then, late Thursday, Melissa Conley--Carlton's sister--told TIME that Johnson was lying during the televised news conference that had gripped the country Wednesday. Through her own tears, Melissa, 41, said that she was in the delivery room and she saw an ID bracelet on Johnson's baby before she was taken from the room. Johnson has said that her baby was whisked away for tests before a bracelet was attached. If it turns out there's even the flimsiest of allegations linking Johnson to the switch--and there is no evidence of that now--the two families would...
Though they are on better terms now, Carlton Conley and Johnson have fought so much they should be in a Tammy Wynette song. She threw him out in January 1995 because, Johnson says, "he spent more time hunting and fishing than he did with his family." Johnson herself is no shrinking violet: she was convicted in 1994 of a very Southern civil infraction called "curse and abuse." She apparently had called a school official a "fat b___" and run at the woman's car. Conley and Johnson often wrangled over his $75 a week child-support payment for Callie...
...McGwire and Sammy Sosa [SPORT, July 27]. As a lifetime fan of baseball, I have more trouble enjoying this great game as its keepers continue to try to destroy it. I do have one complaint. Your list of the leading Cy Young award winners for best pitcher showed Steve Carlton winning four of them with St. Louis. While Carlton started his career with the Cardinals, his greatest success came with the Philadelphia Phillies. I know because at times he was the only reason to watch the team. It may not seem like a lot, but I'm a Phillies...